Step by step science has been unravelling the tangle, and has loosened with its human fingers the knots that once seemed _deo digni vindice_.

It has enabled us to see in nature a complete machine, needing no aid from without.

It has made a conception of things rational and coherent that was formerly absurd and arbitrary.
Science has done all this; but this is all that it has done.

The dogmatism of denial it has left as it found it, an unverified and unverifiable assertion.

It has simply made this dogmatism consistent with itself.