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He must be very ignorant of Science who reproaches Religion with the employment of inference or merely probable ar- guments, as if she alone were a sinner, or guilty above her physical sister. Science is as much the daughter of reason as of the senses. If the first step in induction is observation, the second is al- ways what inference the observations justify. It is from this point of view that Herbert Spencer gives as one definition of science, " an extension of the perceptions by means of re...asoning" ("Recent Dis- cussions, " p. 160). Observed facts do not deserve the name of science until they have been arranged by the magnet of some idea and marshaled in the on- ward column of some argument. "Isolated facts and experiments, " says Helmholtz, in his lecture upon the "Aim and Progress of Physical Science" (" Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects, " p. 369), " have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a geologist studies the forces which are now altering by slow degrees the form and aspect of the earth's crust, wearing down the rocks here, depositing beds of sand and pebbles there, pouring out floods of lava over certain regions, raising or lowering the line of coast along certain seas ; and he applies the result of his observations with confidence to the explanation of phenomena dating from a time to which men's imaginations, even, can hardly reach.
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