I Forbid the Banns! — page 74: what you’re looking at

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64 “7 FORBID THE BANNS!”. “Tt is there that the man of science goes to worship, not with his soul, but with his mind. He puts the human soul into the crucible, and gives you an analysis of what remains, worked out to five places of decimals. He has brought God into the laboratory, and after a series of experiments declared him to be two parts superstition and one part automatic cerebration. Science has taken from us all that made life beautiful, and has given us in exchange a handful of ashes and a mathematical formula.” ‘“T am amazed to hear you say that, Miss Lancaster,” said Charlton ; and he really was amazed. “ Of course, as a man of science, you are amazed to find anyone with the effrontery to say a word against your modern systems.” “Tam,” he replied ; “ I am amazed to find anyone with the courage to express what I have felt for years.” ‘¢ What, you do not mean to say that you have been think- ing on the same lines ?’”’ cried the girl. ‘‘T assure you I have,” said he. “TI left Cambridge full of scientific enthusiasm—I worked for five years in accord- ance with modern methods. The deeper the insight I got into the most recent systems, the more dissatisfied I became. One morning the breaking strain was reached. I packed up my portmanteau and took the first steamer to America. That is nearly two years ago, and I have been traveling ever since.” ‘And the result has been ?”’ “The result has been that—that—I met you.” The girl did not look down to her plate with a blush as she would have done had she lived fifty years earlier. She turned her eyes full upon his face. She looked at him ear- nestly, with something of wonder in her gaze. He felt as though the most brilliant electric search light had been directed upon him, only no electric search light has been invented that will reach to a man’s soul, Gomichbookssco