Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. WHAT PROVOKED THE PROTEST. I think it is clear from the foregoing that the reaction against the scientists of the anti- supernatural and anti-religious class has commenced and most likely will continue. It will be helpful to that end and not without interest to many readers to explain why people are dissatisfied with the researches of the agnostic scientists. The reason is short and intelligible—their conclusions bring no comfort and are of no use to any human mind in answering the questions that are always present to men— whence have I come, why am I here, and what is to become of me? For instance: The last question personally and vitally affects everybody. There is no more certain fact than that we shall not be very long in existence here. What is going to happen then? Every individual human being wants to know something definite about that. The universal fact of death makes it so personally interesting to each and every one. Well, when the "scientific method" and its conclusions are eagerly scrutinized for information on this point of such intense interest, people are amazed to find, after all the brave parade made of them in these recent years, that they are dumb on this vital question. The utmost the honester scientists say is—We do not know. Some less scrupulous say—There is nothing to follow or to happen. But that is not honest for they give no proof—not the shadow of a proof of their assertion. The former, indeed, advise every one not to trouble about it—to let themselves go with the great tide of human life into the void— the unknown. There is nothing to fear, no cause for alarm. Now the great mass of men never have believed and never will believe that. It is no wonder their disappointment is great. An apt pupil of the "scientific method" in...