The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer

PREFACE

The enemies of Science are not the philistines alone--if any still remain--who would muzzle or stifle her. More numerous and dangerous are those--professedly of her own household--who ascribe to her pretensions of which she herself knows nothing, and strive to make her responsible for a philosophy entirely beyond her scope. With this object efforts are assiduously made to po...