104 GLAUCUS ; OR, 
ineffable, that He may look on that which He hath 
made, and behold it is very good. 
I speak, of course, under correction; for this 
conclusion is emphatically matter of induction, and 
must be verified or modified by ever-fresh facts: but 
I meet with many a Christian passage in scientific 
books, which seems to me to go, not too far, but 
rather not far enough, in asserting the God of the 
Bible, as Saint Paul says, “not to have left Himself 
without witness,” in nature itself, that He is the God 
of grace. Why speak of the God of nature and the 
God of grace as two antithetical terms? The Bible 
never, in a single instance, makes the distinction ; 
and surely, if God be (as He is) the Eternal and 
Unchangeable One, and if (as we all confess) the 
universe bears the impress of His signet, we have 
no right, in the present infantile state of science, 
to put arbitrary limits of our own to the revelation 
which He may have thought good to make of Him- 
self in nature. Nay, rather, let us believe that, if 
our eyes were opened, we should fulfil the re- 
quirement of Genius, to “see the universal in the 
