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such investigations are no legitimate part of science. 

 If to seek for the causes of things is not science, 

 then what is ? If one thing more than another has 

 built up modern science into the splendid monu- 

 ment to man's untiring industry and intellectual 

 greatness that it now is, assuredly it is the very 

 fact that men have not been content to remain 

 in ignorance of the causes of things or of any of 

 their inter-relationships. What is gravitation, what 

 are the laws of motion, what is natural selection, 

 but the majestic generalisations of scientific minds, 

 and professedly based upon scientific phenomena 

 or the facts of nature ? The sublime generalisa- 

 tion that there is a Deity is a scientific inference, 

 and is the logical consequence of scientific facts. 

 Without that belief nature cannot be explained, 

 the mind of man is unsatisfied. God is a postulate 

 of the scientific mind, and would be conceived even 

 in the absence of the Bible. The existence of God 

 does not belong solely to the supernatural, it is a 

 necessary corollary of the natural. There is a 

 supernatural in theology, but there is a theology 

 which is not outside of the natural. A very 

 weighty sentence from Dr. Dallinger's Fcrnley 

 Lecture emphasizes this : " Science has removed 

 whole regions and seons of phenomena from what 

 was considered the supernatural to the natural ; 

 but to believe that this is so much lost to theology 

 is a feeble and faithless fallacy." 



To sum up, then, we hold that the argument 

 for the existence of a Creator falls within the 

 natural as well as the supernatural, for it proceeds 



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