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development. The result of our inquiry here, in 

 making this plain, goes far toward settling the issue 

 between such philosophy and the Christian belief 

 in personality. Does it not in fact settle it against 

 evolutionism, and in favour of the older and higher 

 view } Fulfilled philosophy vindicates our faith in 

 the Personality of the Eternal Ideal, in the reality 

 of God, by vindicating the reality of man the Mind, 

 and exhibiting his legislative relation to Nature and 

 thence to evolution. It thus secures a stable footing 

 for freedom, and for immortality with worth, and 

 thereby for the existence of the Living God who 

 is Love indeed, because the Inspirer of an endless 

 progress in moral freedom. 



Let men of science keep the method of science 

 within the limits of science ; let their readers, at all 

 events, beware to do so. Within these limits there 

 is complete compatibility of science with religion, 

 and forever will be. Let science say its untram- 

 melled say upon man the physical, the physiological, 

 or the experimentally psychological ; upon man the 

 body and man the sensory consciousness, — these are 

 all doubtless under the law of evolution issuing from 

 man the Rational Soul. But let not science contrive 

 its own destruction by venturing to lay profane 

 hands, vain for explanation, on that sacred human 

 nature which is its very spring and authorising 

 source. And let religion stay itself on the sover- 



