VI 



THE LIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND 

 THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE. 



[1890] 



THERE are three ways of regarding any account of 

 past occurrences, whether delivered to us orally or 

 recorded in writing. 



Thejiarratlve may be exactly true.^ That is to 

 say, the words, taken in their natural sense, and 

 interpreted according to the rules of grammar, may 

 convey to the mind of the hearer, or of the reader 

 an idea precisely correspondent with one which 

 would have remained in the mind of a witness. 

 For example, the statement that King Charles the 

 First was beheaded at Whitehall on the 30th day 

 of January 1649, is as exactly true as any pro- 

 position in mathematics or physics ; no one doubts 

 that any person of sound faculties, properly placed, 

 who was present at Whitehall throughout that 

 day, and who used his eyes, would have seen the 



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