THE PROGRAMME 3 



to be delivered " without reference to or reliance upon 

 any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous 

 revelation." 



So we might say that both in their logical and their 

 moral methods, natural sciences are to be the prototype of 

 " Natural Theology " in Lord Gilford's sense. 



NATURAL SCIENCES AND " NATURAL THEOLOGY ' 



But now let us study in a more systematic manner the 

 possible relations of the natural sciences to natural theology 

 as a science. 



How is it possible for a natural scientist to contribute 

 to the science of the highest and ultimate subject of human 

 knowledge ? 



Almost all natural sciences have a sort of naivete in 

 their own spheres ; they all stand on the ground of what 

 has been called a naive realism, as long as they are, so 

 to say, at home. That in no way prejudices their own 

 progress, but it seems to stand in the way of establishing 

 -contact with any higher form of human knowledge than 

 themselves. One may be a first-rate organic chemist even 

 when looking upon the atoms as small billiard balls, and 

 one may make brilliant discoveries about the behaviour of 

 animals even when regarding them in the most anthropo- 

 morphic manner granted that one is a good observer ; 

 but it can hardly be admitted that our chemist would do 

 much to advance the theory of matter, or our biologist to 

 solve the problem of the relations between body and mind. 



It is only by the aid of philosophy, or I would rather 

 say by keeping in constant touch with it, that natural 



