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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, THE LORD BISHOP 

 OF CARLISLE. 



THE ANALOGIES AND CONTRASTS BETWEEN 

 HUMAN AND DIVINE SCIENCE. 



According to the programme of this Anmial Meeting, the Address 

 of your President occupies the middle place between the easy social 

 arrangements of the luncheon table and the more serious occupation of 

 papers and discussions which are to come hereafter. I feel that your 

 President, in like manner, himself occupies somewhat of a middle place : 

 by his position as the nominal head of your Association he is pledged 

 to take interest in the progress of science and the well-being of literature, 

 while at the same time he cannot divest himself of that character which 

 pledges him above all things to an interest in things divine, and which 

 makes it a necessary condition of his concerning himself with the former 

 that the latter shall not be disparaged or forgotten. 



•But, indeed, every thoughtful person must, to a considerable 

 extent, occupy mentally and spiritually something of this middle place : 

 every human soul, which is conscious of the dignity of its own being, 

 touches the things temporal with one hand, and reaches out towards the 

 things eternal with the other ; and while it is foolish and fanatical to 

 interest ourselves only in those thoughts, which connect themselves 

 with what is knowable through the processes of the human intellect, it 

 is unphilosophical, to say nothing more, to concentrate our minds 

 absolutely and exclusively upon this department of knowledge, so as 

 practically to deny the existence of another department of equal import- 

 ance, and possibly of deeper and more abiding interest. Hence it has 

 occurred to me that I might, perhaps, occupy your time for a few 

 minutes advantageously, and deliver what might, under your kind in- 

 dulgence, be regarded as an address suitable to this occasion, if I 

 discoursed to you on what may be called " the Analogies and Contrasts 

 between Human and Divine Science." I do not wish, however, to be 



