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MOW the limits beyond \vliicli science ceases to be 

 _. They best know that questions otTer themselves to 

 ,:it, whieh science, as now proseeuted. has not even 



:i<i> ii<-\ to solve. They have as little fellowship with 

 the atheist who says there 'is no Cod. as with the theist 

 who professes to know the mind of God. " Two things," 

 said Iminiiniiel Kant, till me with awe: the starry 



MS and the sense of moral responsibility in man." 

 And in his hours of health and strength and sanity, when 

 the stroke of action has ceased, and the pause of reflection 

 has set in, the scientific investigator finds himself over- 

 shadowed by the same awe. Breaking contact with the 

 hampering details of earth, it associates him with a Power 

 which gives fullness and tone to his existence, but which 

 he can neither analyze nor comprehend. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE BELFAST ADDRESS.* 



There is one God sujn-m<- over all gods, diviner than mortals, 



\\ !:..- t'.rm is not likr unto man's, and as unlike his nature; 

 But vain mortal- imagine that gods like thems-l\ > arc begotten, 

 \\ ith human s-n>utions and voice and corporeal members; 

 So, if oxen or lions had hands and could work in man's fashion, 

 And tra<-- out with rhisrl or brush their conception of Godhead, 

 Th-n \\ould liorsf- depict gods like horses, and oxen like ox-n, 

 Each kind the divine with its own form and nature endowing. 

 \i..\t Tii m nf < oi.oi'HON (six centuries B. c.), 

 R<ligion t vol. i., p. 76. 



TION^ 1. An impulse inherent in primeval man 



turned his thoughts and questionings betimes toward the 

 sou ices of natural phenomena. The same impulse, 

 inherited and intensified, is the spur of scientific action to- 

 day. Determined by it, by a process of abstraction from 

 \|H-iience we form physical theories which lie beyond the 



! experience, but which satisfy the desiie of the mind 

 to see every natural occurrence resting upon a cause. In 

 forming their notions of the origin of things, our earliest 



10 (and doubtless, we might add, our pivhi.-torir) 

 ancestors pursued, as far as their intelligence permitted. 



* IMiv.-red U-fon- ihe British Association on Wednesday evening. 



