As Mr.Manners had said at Westminster a week or two before, the two seemed to have met at last, each working from different quarters, on a platform on which they could work side by side.

The facts were no longer denied by either party.

Science allowed for the mysteries of Faith; Faith recognized the achievements of Science.

Each granted that the other possessed a perfectly legitimate sphere of action in which the methods proper to that sphere were imperative and final.

The scientist accepted the fact that Religion had a right to speak in matters that lay beyond scientific data; the theologian no longer denounced as fraudulent or disingenuous the claims of the scientist to exercise powers that were at last found to be natural.