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forcible argument, which, though not in principle 

 new, yet looks new in its new scientific setting ; but 

 it is wonderful that such proofs and illustrations 

 should ever have been needed that man should 

 ever have thought it possible to be self-sufficing. 

 And, as has been remarked by one of the profoundest 

 of religious thinkers, Erskine of Linlathen, 1 "there 

 is nothing degrading in this dependence, for we 

 share it with the Eternal Son " ; it is not a conse- 

 quence of sin or of any tendency thereto. 



1 The, Spiritual Order and other Papers, selected from the 

 MSS. of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen. P. 233. Edmonston 

 and Douglas, 1871. 



