Note 1 — PREFACE.

Several such critics, writing of the essay in this book on the “Scientific Spirit of the Age” when it appeared in the Contemporary Review for July, condemned me for failing to do adequate justice to Science, quite regardless of my reiterated assertions (see pp. 6, 7, 34) that I was writing exclusively on the adverse side, and left the glorification of the modern Diana of the Ephesians to the mixed multitude of her followers.