CHAP. XII.] VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 405 



God may be as extensive as their being is capable of. But 

 I think that the results which each man arrives at in his 

 attempts to harmonise his science with his Christianity 

 ought not to be regarded as having any significance except 

 to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should 

 not receive the stamp of a society. For it is of the nature 

 of science, especially of those branches of science which are 



spreading into unknown regions to be continually [here 



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