But in doing this, as men will soon come to see, it has done a great deal more than its chief masters bargained for.

Nature, as explained by science, is nothing more than a vast automaton; and man with all his ways and works is simply a part of Nature, and can, by no device of thought, be detached from or set above it.

He is as absolutely automatic as a tree is, or as a flower is; and is an incapable as a tree or flower of any spiritual responsibility or significance.

Here we see the real limits of science.

It will explain the facts of life to us, it is true, but it will not explain the value that hitherto we have attached to them.