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and in science, have bustled forth to reconcile 

 all new discoveries in physics with the word of 

 inspiration. For it continually happens that some 

 larger collection of facts, or some wider view of 

 the phenomena of nature, alter the whole philoso- 

 phic scheme; whilst revelation has been committed 

 to declare an absolute agreement, with what turns 

 out after all to have been a misconception, or an 

 error. We cannot, therefore, consent to test the 

 truth of natural science by the word of revela- 

 tion. But this does not make it the less important 

 to point out, on scientific grounds, scientific er- 

 rors, when those errors tend to limit God's glory 

 in creation, or to gainsay the revealed relations 

 of that creation to Himself. 



To both these classes of error, though we doubt 

 not quite unintentionally on his part, we think 

 that Mr. Darwin's speculations directly tend." 

 (Page 257.) 



I make no apology for introducing the above 

 extracts from this masterly review into this work. 

 They are written in a truly scientific spirit, and 

 with a high-minded feeling and tone, which in 

 this country at least is recognised as the evidence 

 of deep thought, and as a true view of the relations 

 of science to our conceptions of truth, and the rever- 

 ence with which we instinctively regard the marks 

 of a great and infinite mind in all created things. 



There is, however, one part of the article in 

 this review, upon which I have a word or two 

 to offer. The reviewer is extremely delighted 

 with Mr. Darwin's description of the ants' visit 



