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I agree with the writer that this first conclusion is 

 premature and unworthy — I will add, deplorable. 

 Through what faults or infirmities of dogmatism on 

 the one hand, and skepticism on the other, it came to 

 be so thought, we need not here consider. Let us 

 hope, and I confidently expect, that it is not to last ; 

 that the religious faith which survived without a shock 

 the notion of the fixity of the earth itself may equally 

 outlast the notion of the fixity of the species which 

 inhabit it ; that, in the future even more than in the 

 past, faith in an order^ which is the basis of science, 

 will not — as it cannot reasonably — be dissevered from 

 faith in an Ordainer^ which is the basis of religion. 



