70 EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



which not only gives false views of nature but still 

 falser views of the Author of nature, if indeed it 

 does not positively ignore Him and relegate Him to 

 the region of the unknowable. 



Such a philosophy, if philosophy it can be 

 called, is that of Herbert Spencer, which is now so 

 much the vogue; a philosophy which attempts to 

 explain the origin and constitution of the cosmos by 

 the sole operation of natural causes, and which 

 recognizes only force and matter as the efficient 

 cause of the countless manifestations of nature and 

 mind which constitute the province of science and 

 psychology. 



I would not, however, have it inferred that I 

 regard science and by this I mean natural and 

 physical science and metaphysics as opposed to 

 each other. Far from it. They mutually assist and 

 supplement one another, and a true philosophy of 

 the cosmos is possible only when there is a perfect 

 synthesis between the inductions of science on the 

 one hand and the deductions of metaphysics on the 



other. 



Anticipations of Discoveries. 



It is indeed remarkable, even in the subject 

 under discussion, how frequently philosophers, like 

 poets, seem to have proleptic views of nature that 

 are not disclosed to men of science until long after- 

 wards. All who are familiar with the history of 

 science and philosophy will be able, without diffi- 

 culty, to call to mind some of the marvelous scien- 

 tific intuitions of Pythagoras, Aristotle, St. Gregory 

 of Nyssa, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. 



