n their mature years, is to be ascribed. Mr. Buckle sought
to detach intellectual achievement from moral force. He gravely
erred; for without moral force to whip it into action, the achievement
of the intellect would be poor indeed.

It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from
literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack
of knowledge. A glance at the less technical writings of its
leaders--of its Helmholtz, its Huxley, and its Du Bois-Reymond--would
show what breadth of literary culture they command. Where among
modern writers can you find their superiors in clearness and vigour of
literary style? Science desires not isolation, but freely combines
with every effort towards the bettering of man's estate.
Single-handed, and supported, not by outward sympathy, but by inward
force, it has built at least one great wing of the many-mansioned home
which man in his totality demands. And if rough walls and protruding
rafter-ends indicate that on one side the edifice is still incomplete,
it is only by wise combination of the parts required, with those
already irrevocably built, that we can hope for completeness. There
is no necessary incongruity between what has been accomplished and
what remains to be done. The moral glow of Socrates, which we all
feel by ignition, has in it nothing incompatible with the physics of
Anaxagoras which he so much scorned, but which he would hardly scorn
to-day. And here I am reminded of one among us, hoary, but still
strong, whose prophet-voice some thirty years ago, far more than any
other of this age, unlocked whatever of life and nobleness lay latent
in its most gifted minds--one fit to stand beside Socrates or the
Maccabean Eleazar, and to dare and suffer all that they suffered and
dared--fit, as he once said of Fichte, Ito have been the teacher of
the Stoa, and to have discoursed of Beauty and Virtue in the groves of
Academe.' With a capacity to grasp physical principles which his
friend Goethe did not possess, and which even total lack of exercise
has not been able to reduce to atrophy, it is the world's loss that
he, in the vigour of his years, did not open his mind and sympathies
to science, and make its conclusions a portion of his message to
mankind. Marvellously endowed as he was--equally equipped on the side
of the Heart and of the Understanding--he might have done much towards
teaching us how to reconcile the claims of both, and