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" LOOK ON THIS PICTURE " 



WORDS OF THE WISE. 



There is a path which no fowl know- 

 eth, and which the vulture's eye hath 

 not seen. 



The lion's whelps have not trodden it, 

 nor the fierce lion passed it 



He putteth forth his hand upon the 

 rock ; He overturneth the mountains 

 by the roots. 



He cutteth out rivers among the 

 rocks ; and his eye seeth every precious 

 thing. 



He bindeth the floods from overflow- 

 ing ; and the thing that is hid bringeth 

 he forth to light. 



But where shall wisdom be found ? 

 and where is the place of understanding ? 



Man knoweth not the price thereof ; 

 neither is it found in the land of the 

 living. 



" It cannot be valued with the gold of 

 Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the 

 sapphire." 



Tne gold and the crystal cannot equal 

 it ; and the exchange of it shall not be 

 for jewels of fine gold 



The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal 

 it, neither shall it be valued with pure 

 gold. 



"Whence then cometh wisdom ? and 

 where is the place of understanding ? 



Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all 

 living, and kept close from the fowls of 

 the air. 



Destruction and death say, We have 

 heard the fame thereof with our ears. 



For He looketh to the ends of the 

 earth, and seeth under the whole 

 heaven ; 



To make the weight for the winds ; j 

 and He weigheth the waters by measure. 



When He made a decree for the rain, 

 and a way for the lightning and thunder. 



And unto man He said, Behold, the 

 fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to 

 depart from evil is understanding. 



Canst thou by searching find out God ? 

 canst thou find out the Almighty unto 

 perfection ? 



But ask now the beasts, and they shall 

 teach thee : and the fowls of the air, 

 and they shall tell thee. 



Who knoweth not in all these that the 

 hand of the Lord hath wrought this ? 



In whose hand is the soul of every 

 living thing, and the breath of all man- 

 kind. JOB. 



" AND ON THAT." 



WORDS OF THE UNWISE. 



" What little I know about the matter 

 leads me to think that if M. Comte had 

 possessed the slightest acquaintance 

 with biological science, (Philosophers 

 disagree, it seems) he would have turned 

 his phraseology upside down, and have 

 found that we can have no knowledge of 

 the great laws of life, except that which 

 is based upon the study of natural living 

 beings." 



"If there is one thing clear (clear ! ) 

 about the progress of modern science, it 

 is the tendency to reduce all scientific 

 problems except those which are purely 

 intellectual to questions of molecular 

 physics, that is to say, to the attractions, 

 repulsions, motions, and co-ordination of 

 the alternate particles of matter. Social 

 phenomena are the result of the inter- 

 action of the complements of society, or 

 men with one another in the surrounding 

 universe. But in the language of phy- 

 sical science, which by the nature of the 

 case is materialistic, the actions of men, 

 so far as they are recognisable by 

 science, are the results of molecular 

 changes in the matter of which they are 

 composed." 



" To a certain extent indeed it may be 

 said, that imperfect ossification of the 

 vertebral column is of an embryonic 

 character, but on the other hand it 

 would be extremely incorrect to suppose 

 that the vertebral columns of the older 

 yertebrata are, in any sense, embryonic, 

 in their whole structure. " 



" Matter and spirit are both names for 

 the imaginary substrata of groups of 

 natural phenomena." 



" In itself it is but of little moment, 

 whether we express the phenomena of 

 matter in terms of spirit, or the pheno- 

 mena of spirit in teims of matter." 



" The extension of the province of 

 what we call matter or caxisation, and 

 the concomitant gradual banishment 

 from all regions of human thought, of 

 what we call spirit and spontaneity.' 1 



" Traced back to its earliest state, the 

 mntter arises as the man does, in a 

 particle of nucleated protoplasm." 



Huxley. 



Well did Sir Walter Scott declare of the Bible : 



" Within this awful volume lies 

 The mystery of mysteries. 

 Happiest they of human race, 

 To whom their God has given grace 

 To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, 

 To lift the latch, to force the way, 

 And better had they ne'er been born, 

 Than read to doubt, or read to scorn." 



The fool hath said in his heart there is no God:' PSALM xiv. 5. 

 "Answer a fool according to his folly" PROVERB& xxvi. 5. 



