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That there is a gap in the continuity of development or any supernatural intervention has never been suggested by me; but it does appear that there is an ascent such as constitutes an essential difference and calls for other than physical explanation. In matter, said Tyndall, is the potentiality of all life. Matter is what we discern by our bodily senses.
But he was thinking persistently. Then came Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Lubbock a whole string of British thinkers who fortified the original conclusions of the others, but showed him a beauty, a formality, a lavishness of form and idea in nature's methods which fairly transfixed him. He was still reading poets, naturalists, essayists, but he was still gloomy.
For some time I was sustained in my scepticism by the consideration that many famous men, such as Darwin himself, Huxley, Tyndall and Herbert Spencer, derided this new branch of knowledge; but when I learned that their derision had reached such a point that they would not even examine it, and that Spencer had declared in so many words that he had decided against it on a priori grounds, while Huxley had said that it did not interest him, I was bound to admit that, however great, they were in science, their action in this respect was most unscientific and dogmatic, while the action of those who studied the phenomena and tried to find out the laws that governed them, was following the true path which has given us all human advance and knowledge.
Assure them, please, that we're in strict training, with more races to come, and that banquets would perhaps spoil us for the next race." "I'm afraid I'll have difficulty in getting that message through," protested Mr. Tyndall. "Your Gridley friends are bound to have you over at the hotel." "They can't get us there with anything less than the state militia," declared Dave, who had awakened.
"What is your name?" "James Gathorne Kerry, as I have already given it to the court," was the calm reply. "Where do you live?" "In Askatoon, as I have already said in evidence; and if it is necessary to give my domicile, I live at the house of Mrs. Tyndall Tynan, Pearl Street as you know so well." The tone in which he uttered the last few words was such that even the judge pricked up his ears.
'Brighton, December 9, 1857. 'My Dear Tyndall, I cannot resist the pleasure of saying how very much I have enjoyed your paper. Every part has given me delight. It goes on from point to point beautifully. You will find many pencil marks, for I made them as I read.
There are many reasons for believing that the amount of carbonic acid gas then existing in the atmosphere was larger than the quantity which we now find, and Professor Tyndall has shown that the effect of this would be to prevent radiation of heat from the earth.
M.W. Jacobus, D.D., they together came to call on me about the matter at the very moment I was pleading with God that He would mercifully, 'while yet speaking, hear me. Now could Tyndall and his followers desire a more literal, a more exact fulfillment of this prophecy and promise as proof of its inspiration, and of prayer as God's ordinance than that prayer for such fulfillment of these words actually before the prayer was made, and while the petitioner was 'yet speaking?"
And if I happened to be absent, he would leave a little note for me, couched in this or some other similar form: 'Dear Tyndall, I was looking for you, because we were at tea we have not yet done will you come up? I frequently shared his early dinner; almost always, in fact, while my lectures were going on. There was no trace of asceticism in his nature.
Galileo, Huxley, Newton, Tyndall, Humboldt, Darwin, Edison, and Burbank are only the schoolboys grown large in their search for the meaning of truth. They have enlarged the content of the word for us all, and by following their lead we may attain to their answers. Every school study gives forth a partial answer, and the sum of all these answers constitutes the answer which the boy is seeking.
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