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some things which are ''somew hat
amusing" and an inability to 'distin-
guish the fine shades which the
Doctor himself distinguishes. There
is one thing. however. that we suspect
he did not find very much OF in Kant,
aud that is. something which he HIM
self understood. None the less he
gives Kant credit for not being with
out brains and able to break through
'the objective and subjective darkness
in which ne lived.
After some remarks about Bishop
Butter and the Christian religion, Il
consideration of the vulgarlty Of the
proletariat follows a page about free
love in which we are told that almost
the only mission of works Of fiction
and the stage Is the defence of lechery.
So far 'modern science i'as not shed
much IL ht'' on the AntinomicS. But
we shall get there after Il while, with
patience.
Dr. Ward is. furthermore, posses
ed of an abnormal ethical conscious
ness. He SAYS. THAT there is any
greater intrinsic dignity or nobility in
Il universe created by design than in
one created bv evolution. few men
with scientific habits Of thought will
probably be able to admit. And a
person who entertains such an opin-
ion is so completely manned and mu-
tilated in his whole nature and being
and so totally outside of all svmpath"
and relation with humanity us 1t al,
ways has existed and from its very
nature must ever continue to exist.
that he is disqualified by nature to
speak on matters where man is inter
ested as personal being
At last. then We shall see that "t1ul-
geuce which ''modern sci nee" is to
pour on Kant. And it is short work
to bring its brilliancy to Il focus.
DR.. Ward asserts positively that
quantitative chemistry has established
the injestructiblity of mater. He
says transcendeI tai (,N chemistry re-
Quires an ultimate real unit, that force
puts the units in motions, which said
units in motion suffice to account for
all the phenomena in the universe,
that is, from gram of sand to the
Christian religion. This is positively
all the eight
Now. really. those of us who are in
cIined to a m ore spiritual philosophy
need not be alarmed at this bugaboo
of modern science. When it attempts
to 60 beyond its legitimate and useful
field of sense 1t torfeits all claim to re-
spect. Here its impudent demands on
human credulity are only equalled by
It's colossal dogmatlsm, its brazen-faced
DENIAL of the plainesc facts in con-
seriousness and its unsupported and alb
surd affirmatlons. Its unextended
atom occupying space is more rldlcu-
lous than any of the sons of Scholas-
ticism. 1t processes to proceed a pos
teriiou and denounced the a priori
method and yet it has to steal from
Metaphysic its first principle of the
indestructability Of matter. When it
can bridge the abyss between its ma
teTldl dtoillS anu SoIeCloue PSiSoh"ll'.'
we will listen to what it has to say--not
before. And with all Its boosted ad-
vances it is no nearer this result today
than it was in the days of Its father.
Democ. titus, twenty-five hundred years
ago.
As for DR.. Ward, we would suggest
that the Critique of Pure Reason is bad
ground for amateurs and would adyise
him to try and educate himself into
humanity and study speculative phil
osophy and meanwhile to sick to his
retorts and his herbarium
WILLIAM MACON Con EMAN