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is often made, either explicitly or implicitly, and in 

 our own times particularly on behalf of the mathema- 

 tical and physical sciences, that scientific results repre- 

 sent complete and "objective" reality. This claim can- 

 not be justified. 



We learn to know God, not by any process of ab- 

 stract reasoning or external revelation, but by practic- 

 ally realising in our own everyday lives, and those of 

 our fellow men, that we are not mere individuals but 

 one with a higher Reality. In losing our individual 

 lives we find our true life, and in no part of human 

 activity is this losing of the individual self more clearly 

 realised than in scientific work. When, but only 

 when, we see that the natural world appears to us 

 as it does through the devoted scientific work which 

 has fashioned its present appearance, we have found 

 God in the natural world. The life of such a man as 

 Charles Darwin is in truth a standing proof of the 

 existence of God. 



I think the Founders of the Silliman Lectures must 

 have felt this when they left complete liberty to each 

 lecturer to treat his subject just as seemed best for his 

 immediate purpose, and without reference to theology. 



