in these sciences draw from them. "The throne of the
Godhead is the human mind"; but it is mainly though
the external world that God reveals Himself to the
human mind.

The philosopher or theologian in most cases has had
no special training in science. His only chance of being
able to write intelligently on the philosophical problems
raised by scientific discoveries is to read carefully the best
and newest books, some of which, especially in England,
have been written, in a semi-popular form, in the hope of
attracting the interest of the fortunately very large class
who wish to know what the picture of the universe looks
like in the light of the latest theories. Our leading
scientists have no wish to keep the educated public at
a distance, though some of them may affect to disdain
"popularisers." They are also well aware that their re-
sults are found highly interesting by students of religion
and philosophy. But second-hand information, how-
ever laboriously acquired, is a poor substitute for a
scientific education. Errors, not, we may hope, on the
heroic scale of Hegel's theory of heat, are sure to creep
in; and even when the facts are correctly stated amateur-
ishness will be apparent on every page. I should not be
slow to detect these tokens of superficiality if a painstaking
physicist or mathematician were to compile a treatise
on classical scholarship or Greek philosophy or Christian
theology. Eminent men of science have, in fact, already
invaded our territory, and have been rather roughly
handled by the Oxford metaphysical pundits. Their

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