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to upset some of our favourite opinions; for unless we 

 know everything, it is certain that we must at times find 

 that we have been mistaken. 



Those who will labour in this spirit of seeking the truth 

 for itself will find their reward in the ever-increasing delight 

 they will feel in studying God's works, and in the assurance 

 which they will meet with at every step, that nothing can 

 happen except under the guidance of His laws. True 

 science, like true religion, leads to an entire and childlike 

 dependence upon the Invisible Ruler of the universe. It 

 makes us eager to study God's laws, that we may live in 

 accordance with them, and diminish some of the gross 

 ignorance which now prevails ; while at the same time it 

 leads even the most instructed to feel how extremely limited 

 our knowledge is, and that we are after all like inexperienced 

 children, dependent upon the love and power of our Maker 

 to bring us safely out of darkness into light. 



Chief Works consulted. —Darwin's * Origin of Species ; ' Wallace's 

 ' Natural Selection ; ' Huxley's * Lectures to Working Men j * Lyell's 

 ♦Principles of Geology.* 



