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spirit of the age. Science is alword which covers all fornis of knowledge. It is exceedingly interesting to hear what chemists discover, and to see them finding their way through the densities of matter to its finer forms; but there are other kinds of knowledge than this, and it is not everyone who restricts his (strictly scien. tific) desire for knowledge to experiments." which are capable of being'tested by the physical senses.
Everyone who is not a dullard, or a. man stupefied by some predominant vice, has guessed, or even perhaps discovered with some certainty, that there are suhtle renses lying within the physical senses ; there is nothing at all extraordinary in this; if we took the trouble to call Nature into the witness-box we should find that everything which is perceptible to the ordinary sight has something even more important than itself hidden within it; the microscope has opened a world to us, but
