THE POSITION OF MAN IN THE SCALE OF BEING. 2G7 



deal with the material elements of organisation can only be 

 investigated, and successfully prosecuted, by the faculties and 

 methods appropriate for our human acquisition of the science 

 of matter. 



2d, That the psychological departments of organic science 

 can, in like manner, only be investigated, and successfully 

 prosecuted, by the faculties and methods appropriate for the 

 science of mind. 



3d, That the moral and religious elements in the human 

 constitution not only indicate, by their very nature, a method 

 of inquiry and a kind of evidence distinct from those on 

 which we base our knowledge of matter and of mind, but also 

 involve, as their absolute character, that immediate relation 

 which they have to the "intelligent and powerful Being who," 

 in the words of Newton, " governs all things — not as the soul 

 of the world, but as the Lord of the universe; who is not 

 only God, but Lord and Governor." 



4. It is also essential, for the legitimate study of the 

 higher anthropological questions, that you should have satisfied 

 yourselves as to the stability of the grounds of your belief in 

 each of the three departments of truth to which I have re- 

 ferred. The material and sensual phase of our human 

 economy tends to foster rather than to repel a reliance on the 

 truths of pure science, and thus gives a preponderance to the 

 study of the structural department of anthropology. 



The apparent inapplicability, again, of mental science, 

 and the consequent prejudice against its study, as well as the 

 somewhat painful process of self-conscious thought (if I may 

 be permitted to make use of the expression) which its study 

 demands, have all conduced to withdraw tin' attention of 

 anthropologists from the psychological department of the 

 subject. 



And again, the evidence afforded by the revealed record 

 regarding the origin, constitution, and position of man, is ap1 



