The scepticism of materialistic science, that deifies the universe and deposes God, that holds to the absoluteness of averages and denies the sovereignty of Providence.
This is its creed :—
" I believe in fire and water,
And in Fate— Dame Nature's daughter ;
I believe in steam and rice
Not in virtue, nor in vice ;
In what strikes the outward sense—
Not in mind nor providence ;
In a stated course of crimes,
In Macaulay and the Times.
As for truth, the ancients lost her.
Plato was a great impostor,
Morals are a vain illusion,
Leading only to confusion ;
Let us study snakes and flies,
And on fossils fix our eyes.
I believe in all the gases
As a means to raise the masses ;
Carbon animates ambition,
Oxygen controls volition ;
Whate'er is great or good in men
May be traced to hydrogen ;
And the body, not the soul,
Governs the unfathomed whole."
The South Australian Advertiser 21 May 1872,
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