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his head, it bowed in humbler adoration. And so that single man was 

 able to do more for science than all the irreligiouc scientists of the last 

 three centuries have accomplished, while he bore an appalling load of 

 suftering with a patience that was sublime, and, dying, left this epi- 

 taph for his tombstone : " In Christo ^^ie obiit.'''' 



Of Sir Isaac Newton's, and Michael Faraday's, and Sir William 

 Hamilton's, and Sir James Y. Simpson's religious life, not to mention 

 the whole cloud of witnesses, we need not tell what is known to all 

 men. But the history of science shows that not the most gifted, not 

 the most learned, not the most industrious, gain the loftiest vision, biit 

 that only the pixre in heart see God. And all true science is a new 

 sight of God. 



Herbert Spencer says : " Science may be called an extension of the 

 perceptions by means of reasoning " (" Recent Discussions," p. 60). 

 And we may add, religion may be called an extension of the percep- 

 tions by means of faith. And having so said, have we not para- 

 phrased Paul ? " Faith is confidence in things hoped for, conviction 

 of things not seen " (Heb. xi. 1). Science has the finite for its do- 

 main, religion the infinite ; science deals with the things seen, and re- 

 ligion with the things not seen. When Dr. Hutton, of Edinburgh, 

 announced, in the last century, " In the economy of the world I can 

 find no traces of a beginning, no prospect of an end," it is said that 

 scientific men were startled and religious men were shocked. Why 

 should they be ? The creation of the universe and its end are not 

 questions of science, and can be known only as revealed to faith. 

 And so Paul says : " Through faith we apprehend intellectually that 

 the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that that which 

 is seen may have sprung from that which is not seen " (Heb. xi. 3). 



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By GEOKGE J. EOMANES. 



''VTOW that the doctrine which is maintained by Mr. Douglass A. 

 -L^ Spalding on this subject has proved itself so completely vic- 

 torious in overcoming the counter-doctrine of " the individual-experi- 

 ence psychology" and this along the whole line both of fact and 

 theory it seems unnecessary for any one to adduce additional facts 

 in confirmation of the views which Mr. Spalding advocates.' I shall 

 therefore confine myself to detailing a few resixlts yielded by experi- 

 ments which were designed to illustrate the subordinate doctrine thus 

 alluded to in Mr. Spalding's article : 



' See Popular Science Monthly for January, 1876. 



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