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symbol of it?" "Has a revelation been made; and if 

 so, what are its contents ? " 



If we before thought it just that those convinced of 

 scientific truths should be moved to discourage a system 

 they deem to be in contradiction with reason "from the 

 scientific point of view, we must surely also think it just 

 that those convinced of philosophic truths should be moved 

 to discourage a system they deem to be in contradiction 

 with reason," from the philosophic point of view. So 

 long, therefore, and in so far as pantheism or materialism 

 are associated with physical science, those who uphold 

 theism will be more or less opposed to such science 

 while so associated. Thus it seems that the two special 

 causes considered act together to prolong the already 

 long-standing antagonism between physics and theology. 



Yet of any real antagonism between them we have 

 found no trace, even in such a proof case as the appli- 

 cation of the evolutionary hypothesis to the appearance 

 of new species of animals. Physical science should then 

 be considered, alike by the philosophic Christian and 

 anti-Christian, as neutral and indifferent. The question 

 whether the philosophies in vogue accept and collocate 

 the facts of science better than any other philosophy, 

 cannot be considered till we come to the question of 

 philosophic evolution. Meanwhile, it appears that it is 

 only possible for the advance of science to influence 

 Christianity through such philosophy as may be incor- 



