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really become questions of a little more or a little less order 

 and law. Science may well be left to work out the details as 

 it may. Science has thrown some light, little enough at present, 

 but ever increasing, and for which we should all be thankful, 

 upon the processes or methods by which the world in which 

 we dwell has been brought into its present condition. The 

 wonder and mystery of Creation remain as wonderful and 

 mysterious as before. Of the origin of the whole, science 

 tells us nothing. It is still as impossible as ever to conceive 

 that such a world, governed by laws, the operations of which 

 have led to such mighty results, and are attended by such 

 future promise, could have originated without the intervention 

 of some power external to itself. If the succession of small 

 miracles, formerly supposed to regulate the operations of 

 nature, no longer satisfies us, have we not substituted for 

 them one of immeasurable greatness and grandeur ? 



