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"Isn't that true of other faiths?" asked Kate

"No, there's a difference For exaerm; but as to a spirit--no And yet one is quite as incredible as another Crookes applied the same methods to the study of these manifestations that he used in his other researches, and piled up a mass of evidence, yet his fellows of the Royal Academy sneered or haed--and do yet Do you know, doctor," he continued, "I have ht too arrogant We lose the expectant mind We assume that we've corralled and branded all facts, when, as a matter of history, there are scattered bunches of cattle all through the hills Take Haeckel, for instance He talks very like the head of a church laying down the law to you and to ood deal less sure of himself It takes a physical specialist to be cock-sure Darwin never professed to solve the final mystery of life or death, but Haeckel and Metchnikoff do They are so ion that they becoues who presume to differ with the to discuss new phases of hu to say that all the notions of the 'dualists' are survivals of the age of superstition, as Haeckel does It may be that in the midst of all their fancies which are survivals there are some subtle perceptions of the future"

Serviss lifted his eyebrows in surprise "That's a whole lot for you to concede Weiss you"

Britt went on: "We e of transition We are losing faith in the revelations of the past, but we should not presume to define the faith of the future Men will not live in the hopelessness which the monists would thrust upon them, they will not patiently hile Pasteur and Koch and the other gereneration They will always insist on having so to live for and to die for I don't pretend to say what this faith will be, but it will be sufficing"

Kate exclaie in you two irl!"

The two inexorables looked at each other with a certain air of timidity, and Britt's face expanded in a slow, sly smile "You've discovered us We are human, like the rest of our sex, if you catch us out of our laboratories Theoretically we hold life of no account actually we're all lovers or husbands" Athan tears came into his voice "My hopeless philosophy, dear lady, arises froive all I know of science, all I expect to be in my profession, and all I hope to be after I am dead, for just five years of health, such as Laht in the saloons of Colorow I hold with Haeckel in one thing--I believe in a ht to suicide, and when I find myself of no further use to the sick I shall slip quietly out I hope I won't have to poison Clarke before I go I'd do it cheerfully if I thought it the only way to rid that girl of hi that his hostess was really shocked by these words, he lightly ended: "However, I think such extre to send Lambert on to kill him for me"