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the law of gravitation that He governs their movements, so 

 every plant and animal must be equally His creation, in 

 whatever way they have been developed. Above and be- 

 yond all these laws which we can trace, there remains ever 

 the One Great and Supreme Creator whom Anaxagoras wor- 

 shipped instead of the heathen gods of Greece (see p. 14), 

 when his fellow-countrymen condemned him as an unbe- 

 liever because he believed not in many, but in One God. 



A humble, earnest spirit seeking knowledge must indeed 

 find in modern science a deep revelation of the Unity and 

 Unchangeableness of the Creator. Instead of many widely 

 different sciences standing each alone, which the great men 

 of earlier centuries worked out, we are beginning to be able 

 to discern one constant power working through them all ; 

 while still new fields of discovery, such as that which 

 spectrum analysis has only lately opened out to us, help us to 

 bear in mind how little we know, and how much more vast 

 than anything that we can imagine, must be the great scheme 

 of Creation which is being worked out around and within us. 



Concluding Remarks. We have now arrived at the end 

 of our history, for a summary of the science of the nineteenth 

 century is manifestly impossible. The subject has become 

 too vast to be dealt with in a short sketch, even if the limits 

 of this little volume were not already reached. Besides, as 

 we have not mentioned the work of living men, except in 

 cases such as those of Kirchhoff and Darwin, where it was 

 impossible to be avoided, we have not really examined the 

 science of this century, but only very small portions of it. 

 We can therefore, in conclusion, only try to understand the 

 tendency of the science of our day as compared with that of 

 earlier centuries. 



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