CEOONIAN LECTURES 



ON 



MATTER AND FOECE. 



LECTURE I. 



ON THE THREE STAGES OF OUR IDEAS REGARDING THE 

 UNION OF PONDERABLE MATTER AND FORCE IN THE 

 ABIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 



" But though the natural works of God can never by any 

 possibility come in contradiction with the higher things which 

 belong to our future existence, and must with everything 

 concerning him ever glorify him, still I do not think it at all 

 necessary to tie the study of the natural sciences and religion 

 together." FARADAY, MS. 



MK. PEESIDENT, 



I must begin this course of lectures by 

 assuring you that I am fully sensible of my 

 rashness in venturing to bring before you a 

 subject which may be thought to be more 

 metaphysical than physical, and to be too 

 difficult to be of any practical utility ; but I 

 venture to take the great chance of failure, 



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