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tion, and might abax^-clon the old conviction." ^ 

 That is, all evidence ot" the truths of religion 

 not founded on nature and perceived by the 

 senses, amounts to nothing. 



Now as religion does not rest on the testi- 

 mony of the senses, that is on scientific evi- 

 dence, the tendency of scientific men is to 

 ignore its claims. We speak only of tendency. 

 We rejoice to know or believe that in hundreds 

 or thousands of scientific men, this tendency is 

 counteracted by their consciousness of man- 

 hood — the conviction that the body is not the 

 man, — by the intuitions of the reason and 

 the conscience, and by the grace of God. No 

 class of men stands deservedly higher in public 

 estimation than men of science, Avho, while re- 

 maining faithful to their higher nature, have 

 enlarcy-ed our knowledge of the wonderful 

 wo,Yks of God. 



A second cause of the alienation between 

 science and religion, is the failure to make the 

 due distinction between facts and the explana- 

 tion of those facts, or the theories deduced 

 from them. No sound minded man disputes 



1 Protoplasm; or, Matter and Life. By Lionel S. Beale, M. 

 • B., F. R. S. Third edition. London & Philadelphia, 1874, 

 p. 845 ; and the whole chapter on Design. 



