of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end."[1] While on the one hand religion of the past forbade freedom of thought, evolutionary science that so accuses religion, would take away its possibility. There is no prison so painful or rack so excruciating as that state of intellectual and spiritual bondage that would await the world were we obliged to accept the issue of these words: "Though the analysis of mental action may finally bring him (man) down to sensations, as the original materials out of which all thought is woven, yet he is a little forwarder; for he can give no account either of sensations themselves or of that something which is conscious of sensations."[2] Yet we would not derogate the works of such great scholars. They have served the cause of truth in a negative way. They have brought out many valuable facts, stimulated thought, and broken down dogmatic barriers. They have done a greater work than this. They have demonstrated that the realm of causes can not be discovered by going "down to sensations"; that modern scientific methods of their kind are totally inadequate to the discovery of any substance or form
