'The reasonings, the processes of Science,' he affirmed,'are beyond challenge.

Their trustworthiness depends not on their subject-matter, but on their own character; not on their relation to outward Nature, but on their conformity to the laws of thought.

Their upholders are right in affirming that what will not ultimately bear the test of their application cannot be knowledge, and probably--for the practical purposes of human life we may say certainly--cannot be truth.

They are wrong in alleging that the ideas for which they can find no foundation in the subjects to which scientific method has hitherto been applied, are therefore unscientific, or sure to disappear under scientific investigation.

I hold that the existence of a Creator and Ruler of the Universe can be logically deduced from first principles, as well as justly inferred from cumulative evidences of overwhelming weight.