  Few others would ever go so far as Eddington’s ontological heroism; yet epistemological and methodological heroism in the fight against Milne was not rare. Chief hero in this aspect of the attack on Milne was Herbert Dingle, a highly respected astrophysicist, and then-secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dingle’s initial foray appeared as a response to Milne’s first detailed presentation of kinematic relativity (Milne 1933). After claiming that while kinematic relativity did not differ appreciably from relativistic cosmology in its mathematical formalism or observable consequences, Dingle asserted that, on the other hand, it invited special criticism because it renounced “the fundamental principles of scientific method”, namely, “Newton’s principle of induction from phenomena” (Dingle 1933, p. 178). Dingle was never to relent in his attacks upon Milne’s hypothetico-deductivism, at all times rejecting the methodology as even a possible candidate for acceptance by genuine science.