EVOLUTION AXD THEISM. 391 



generates mechanical power. And thus a bridge of connection is 

 established between physical and moral causation, which enables 

 us to pass without any sense of interruption or inconsistency from 

 the scientific to the theological interpretation of Nature, as here 

 formulated 



r//F.\OMF..VA OF NA TURE. 



SCIF.NTIFIC INTKRI RF.TATION. THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION. 



rhysifal Causa/i\&amp;gt;n. Moral Causation. 



FORCF.S OF NATURE. Designations Po \VF.RS OK NATURE. The deMgna- 



of varied modes of operation of one lions of varied modes of manilesta- 



foiff acting under diversified physi- lion of one and the same Personal 



cal conditions. Agency throughout the material 



Universe. 



LAWS OK NATURE. Generalized ex- OROK.R OK NATURE. The expres- 



p:e&amp;gt;sins of past uniformities ol&amp;gt;- sion of the continuous and uniform 



i-eivt-d in the action of the forces action of a Supreme Intelligence, 



of Nature, leading to the expccta- as apprehended by the intelligence 



lion of binnlar uniformities in the of Man. 

 future. 



With these views of the relations between science and theology, 

 I have never myself been able to see why anything else than a 

 complete harmony should exist between them. True it is that 

 there have been, from time to time, men of science, who, from 

 what I believe to be an equally limited and illogical conception of 

 the subject, have drawn the conclusion that there is &quot; no room &quot; 

 for a (iod in Nature ; the &quot;properties of matter&quot; being, in their 

 view, all-sufficient to account for the phenomena of the universe 

 and for the powers and actions of the human mind. Hut this 

 seems to me only a natural reaction against what all history 

 teaches, as to the constancy with which, ever since science 

 emancipated itself from theology and set up for itself, it has been 

 hampered and impeded in its search for the truth as it is in Nature, 

 by the restraints which theologians have attempted to impose upon 

 its inquiries. The Romish Church, adopting the philosophy of 

 Aristotle into its own theological system, opposed as heretical 

 every attempt to call in question the authority of Aristotle, even 

 as to nutters of fact ; and while it could not repudiate the proof 

 afforded by the experiments of (iahleo, that a weight of lolb. does 

 not (as affirmed by Aristotle) fall ten times faster than a weight of 

 i lb., it judicially condemned him as an impious heretic, for 



