324.
[285] Thus Professor Tyndall, in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ of June 15, 1868, speaking of physical science, observes, "The _logical feebleness_ of science is not sufficiently borne in mind.

It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation." [286] By this it is not, of course, meant to deny that the existence of God can be demonstrated so as to demand the assent of the intellect taken, so to speak, by itself.
[287] See some excellent remarks in the Rev.Dr.Newman's Parochial Sermons--the new edition (1869), vol.i.p.

211.
[288] _American Journal of Science_, July 1860, p.

143, quoted in Dr.Asa Gray's pamphlet, p.

47.
[289] See _The Academy_ for October 1869, No.