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cently ascribed extensive groups of phenomena to electric- 

 ity, chemical affinity, and other like general powers. But 

 in speaking of these as ultimate and independent entities, 

 Science has preserved substantially the same attitude as be- 

 fore. Accounting thus for all phenomena, those of Life 

 and Thought included, it has not only maintained its seem- 

 ing antagonism to Religion, by alleging agencies of a radi- 

 cally unlike kind; but, in so far as it has tacitly assumed a 

 knowledge of these agencies, it has continued unscientific. 

 At the present time, however, the most advanced men of 

 science are abandoning these later conceptions, as their pre- 

 decessors abandoned the earlier ones. Magnetism, heat, 

 light &c., which were awhile since spoken of as so many 

 distinct imponderables, physicists are now beginning to re- 

 gard as different modes of manifestation of some one uni- 

 versal force; and in so doing are ceasing to think of this 

 force as comprehensible. In each phase of its prog- 



ress, Science has thus stopped short with superficial, solu- 

 tions has unscientifically neglected to ask what was the- 

 nature of the agents it so familiarly invoked. Though in 

 each succeeding phase it has gone a little deeper, and' 

 merged its supposed agents in more general and abstract* 

 \ones, it has still, as before, rested content with these as. 

 if they were ascertained realities. And this, which has 

 all along been the unscientific characteristic of Science, has 

 all along been a part cause of its conflict with Eeligion. 



30. We see then that from the first, the faults of both 

 Religion and Science have been the faults of imperfect de- 

 velopment. Originally a mere rudiment, each has been 

 growing into a more complete form ; the vice of each has in 

 all times been its incompleteness; the disagreements be- 

 tween them have throughout been nothing more than the 

 consequences of their incompleteness ; and as they reach 

 their final forms, they come into entire harmony. 



The progress of intelligence has throughout been dual. 



