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faith, should provide the individual religious believer with intellectual enlightenment and gentleness. The quality, orderliness, and inclusiveness of knowledge, finally determine its value; and the philosopher, premature as his synthesis may some day prove to be, is the wisest man of his own generation. From him the man of faith should obtain such discipline of judgment as shall enable him to be fearless of advancing knowledge, because acquainted with its scope, and so intellectually candid with all his visions and his inspirations. FOOTNOTES: [120:1] Ernst Mach: _Science of Mechanics_. Translation by McCormack, p. 464. No one has made more important contributions than Professor Mach to a certain definite modern philosophical movement. Cf. Sect. 207. [129:2] Whewell: _History of the Inductive Sciences_, Vol. I, p. 289. Quoted from Kepler: _Mysterium Cosmographicum_. [129:3] Quoted by Sidgwick in his _Philosophy, its Scope and Relations_, p. 89. [132:4] The reader is referred to Mr. Bertrand Russell's chapters on _matter_ and _motion_ in his _Principles of Mathematics_, Vol. I. Material particles he defines as "many-one relations of all times to some places, or of all terms of a continuous one-dimensional series _t_ to some terms of a continuous three-dimensional series _s_." Similarly, "when different times, throughout any period however short, are correlated with different places, there is motion; when different times, throughout some period however short, are all correlated with the same place, there is rest." _Op. cit._, p. 473. [137:5] That the scientist still permits himself to teach the people a loose exoteric theory of reality, is proven by Professor Ward's citation of instances in his _Naturalism and Agnosticism_. So eminent a physicist as Lord Kelvin is quoted as follows: "You can imagine particles of something, the thing whose motion constitutes light. This thing we call the luminiferous ether. That is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of, and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminiferous ether." Vol. I, p. 113. [140:6] Berkeley: _Principles of Human Knowledge_, Introduction. Edition of Fraser, p. 248. [142:7] The reader who cares to pursue this topic further is referred to the writer's discussion of "_Professor Ward's Philosophy of Science_" in the _Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods_, Vol. I, No. 13. PART
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