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no imaginable future time, so long as the essen- 

 tial conditions of human thinking are maintained, 

 can science even attempt to substitute the action 

 of any other power for the direct action of Deity. 

 Darwinism may convince us that the existence 

 of highly complicated organisms is the result of 

 an infinitely diversified aggregate of circumstances 

 so minute as severally to seem trivial or acciden- 

 tal ; yet the consistent theist will always occupy 

 an impregnable position in maintaining that the 

 entire series in each and every one of its incidents 

 is an immediate manifestation of the creative ac- 

 tion of God. 



From an obverse point of view it might be ar- 

 gued that since a philosophical theism must regard 

 Divine power as the immediate source of all phe- 

 nomena alike, therefore science cannot properly 

 explain any particular group of phenomena by a 

 direct reference to the action of Deity. Such a 

 reference is not an explanation, since it adds noth- 

 ing to our previous knowledge either of the phe- 

 nomena or of the manner, of Divine action. The 

 business of science is simply to ascertain in what 

 manner phenomena co-exist with each other or 

 follow each other, and the only kind of explana- 

 tion with which it can properly deal is that which 

 refers one set of phenomena to another set. In 



