SUPERSTITION; 



HAVING accepted the very great honour of being 

 allowed to deliver here two lectures, I have chosen as 

 my subject Superstition and Science. It is with 

 Superstition that this first lecture will deal. 



The subject seems to me especially fit for a clergy- 

 man ; for he should, more than other men, be able to 

 avoid trenching on two subjects rightly excluded from 

 this Institution; namely, Theology that is, the know- 

 ledge of God; and Religion that is, the knowledge of 

 Duty. If he knows, as he should, what is Theology, 

 and what is Religion, then he should best know what is 

 not Theology, and what is not Religion. 



For my own part, I entreat you at the outset to 

 keep in mind that these lectures treat of matters 

 entirely physical ; which have in reality, and ought to 

 have in our minds, no more to do with Theology and 

 Religion than the proposition that theft is wrong, has 

 to do with the proposition that the three angles of a 

 triangle are equal to two right angles. 



* A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, London, 1867. 



