ABSTRACT
Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe. The Agnostic is as much Theist as they, as much Atheist as they. He knows, as Professor Huxley says on another page, "nothing of what may be beyond phenomena." The rapid growth of Agnosticism may be mainly attributed to the progress of knowledge and to the consequent decline of dogmatism. Agnosticism affirms that the analysis of all hypotheses demonstrates not only that no current explanation of the world's genesis is conceivable, but also that no conceivable explanation can ever be current; not only that all theories are inadequate, but also that no theory is even thinkable. That Agnosticism is the natural condition of the scientific mind is demonstrated by the tendencies of the historic and unceasing conflict between science and religion.
