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advance of science and the comparative non-progression 

 of religion is to be found, and the reasons for much 

 of their .mutual distrust and antagonism, discovered ; 

 as well as the necessity for their again uniting their 

 efforts in applying the practical advantages, to be obtained 

 from their combined use, in the constantly recurring 

 vicissitudes marking the life and experience of man. 

 Secrets are no longer necessary to the progress of science; 

 indeed they constitute the problems in the elucidation 

 of which its best efforts are spent, and, the wider, and 

 fuller they become known to humanity, the quicker 

 will be the progress of civilisation, and the ameliora- 

 tion of the lot, of man. Secretion, therefore, appears 

 somewhat of an anachronism in this period of the world's 

 history, and might be amended, on the lines hinted at 

 above, with advantage to the interests of scientific 

 progress and the advance of exact knowledge if, how- 

 ever, it be found possible, or best, to retain it without 

 detriment to progress, scientific, and literary, we shall 

 be prepared to cherish it, as its importance demands 

 and deserves. 



