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biblical Cosmogony. "In so far," says he, "as Church 
belief is still committed to a given Cosmogony and natural 
history of man, ii lies open to scientific refutation." And 
again: "It turns out that with the sun and moon and 
stars, and in and on the earth, before and after the appear- 
ance of our race, quite other things have happened than 
those which the sacred Cosmogony recites." Once more: 
" The whole history of the genesis of things Eeligion must 
surrender to the Sciences." Finally, still more emphatically: 
"In the investigation of the genetic order of things, 
Theology is an intruder, and must stand aside." This 
expresses, only in words of fuller pith, the views which I 
ventured to enunciate in Belfast. "The impregnable 
position of science," I there say, " may be stated in a few 
words. We claim, and we shall wrest from Theology, the 
entire domain of Cosmological theory." Thus Theology, 
so far as it is represented by Mr. Martineau, and Science, 
so far as I understand it, are in absolute harmony here. 
But Mr. Martineau would have just reason to complain 
of me, if, by partial citation, I left my readers under the 
impression that the agreement between us is complete. 
At the opening of the eighty-ninth session of the Man- 
chester New College, London, on October 6, 1874, he, its 
principal, delivered an address bearing the title " Eeligion 
as affected by Modern Materialism;" the references and 
general tone of which make evident the depth of its 
author's discontent with my previous deliverance at Belfast. 
I find it difficult to grapple with the exact grounds of this 
discontent. Indeed, logically considered, the impression 
teft upon my mind by an essay of great aesthetic merit, con- 
taining many passages of exceeding beauty, and manysenti- 
ments which none but the pure in heart could utter as 
they are uttered here, is vague and unsatisfactory. The 
author appears at times so brave and liberal, at times so 
timid and captious, and at times, if I dare say it, so 
imperfectly informed, regarding the position he assails. 
At the outset of his address Mr. Martineau states with 
some distinctness his "sources of religions faith." They 
are two "the scrutiny of Nature "and "the interpreta- 
tion of Sacred Books." It would have been a theme 
worthy of his intelligence to have deduced from these two 
sources his religion as it stands. (But not another word is 
said about the " Sacred Books." Having swept with the 
