THE RECONCILIATION". 107 



cently ascribed extensive groups of phenomena to electric- 

 ity, chemical affinity, and other like general powers. But 

 in speaking of these as ultimate and independent entities, 

 Science has preserved substantially the same attitude as be- 

 fore. Accounting thus for all phenomena, those of Life 

 and Thought included, it has not only maintained its seem- 

 ing antagonism to Religion, by alleging agencies of a radi- 

 cally unlike kind; but, in so far as it has tacitly assumed a 

 knowledge of these agencies, it has continued unscientific. 

 At the present time, however, the most advanced men of 

 science are abandoning these later conceptions, as their pre- 

 decessors abandoned the earlier ones. Magnetism, heat, 

 light &c, which were awhile since spoken of as so many 

 distinct imponderables, physicists are now beginning to re- 

 gard as different modes of manifestation of some one uni- 

 versal force; and in so doing are ceasing to think of this 

 force as comprehensible. In each phase of its prog- 



ress, Science has thus stopped short with superficial solu- 

 tions — has unscientifically neglected to ask what was the 

 nature of the agents it so familiarly invoked. Though in 

 each succeeding phase it has gone a little deeper, and 

 merged its supposed agents in more general and abstract 

 ones, it has still, as before, rested content with these as 

 if they were ascertained realities. And this, which has 

 all along been the unscientific characteristic of Science, has 

 all along been a part cause of its conflict with Religion. 



§ 30. "We see then that from the first, the faults of both 

 Religion and Science have been the faults of imperfect de- 

 velopment. Originally a mere rudiment, each has been 

 growing into a more complete form ; the vice of each has in 

 all times been its incompleteness; the disagreements be- 

 tween them have throughout been nothing more than the 

 consequences of their incompleteness; and as they reach 

 their final forms, they come into entire harmony. 



The progress of intelligence has throughout been dual. 



