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demands of him, and this expectation is fully met in 

 the Bible. But nowhere has man looked for the divine 

 revelation of scientific truth, for it is in accordance with 

 the economy of Providence, that Providence which is 

 exhibited in gradual developments, that no such expec- 

 tation has been or need be realised, the Principia of 

 Newton and the discoveries of James Watt being both 

 the result of the natural and unaided faculties of man.' 

 Nay, more ; there never could have been such a revela- 

 tion given, for never yet has a single scientific truth 

 been revealed. But, on the other hand, when he con- 

 trasts this clear perception of the demarcation of 

 religion and science in the Bible, and the all too copious 

 neglect of it in the other sacred books of the world, he 

 is constrained to regard this very ability of distinction 

 between two classes of truth as a strong argument for 

 its inspiration. 



On Man and his destiny he is no less clear, and he 

 has many fertile suggestions to offer. His main thesis 

 in this connection we have already seen as determining 

 in his own life its central point. Man he regards as 

 literally the fellow-worker with God. Up till his appear- 

 ance upon the earth, nature had been remarkable only 

 for what it was, but not for what it became. The 

 advent of man marks the improver of creation God 

 made manifest in the flesh. Between his intellect and 

 that of his Creator there is a relation, since we find 

 creature and Creator working by the same methods. 

 Precisely as we see China arriving at the invention o f 



