Note 8 — ESSAY I. THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

In the very noteworthy paper by Mr. Myers in the Nineteenth Century for May on the “Disenchantment of France,” there occurs this remark: “In that country where the pure dicta of Science reign in the intellectual classes with less interference from custom, sentiment, or tradition, than even in Germany itself, we should find that Science, at her present point, is a depressing disintegrating energy” (p. 663). Elsewhere he says that France “makes M. Pasteur her national hero”!