IN MODERN SCIENCE. 



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lower animals, so harmpnizes with natural laws 

 that it is evidently a part of the great unity of 

 nature, and we can no more dissociate the mind * 

 of man from nature than from his own animal 

 body. If we could do so, we might have ground 

 to distrust the validity of all our conclusions as 

 to nature, and thus to cut away the foundations 

 of science ; and what remained of philosophy 

 and religion would be preternatural, in the bad 

 sense of destroying the unity of nature and im- 

 perilling our confidence in the unity of the Cre-, 

 ator himself. 



In connection with this we have cause to con- 

 sider the true meaning and use of two terms 

 often hurled at theists as weapons of attack. 



The word "anthropomorphic" is a term of 

 reproach for our interpreting nature in har- 

 mony with our own thoughts or our own con- 

 stitution. But if rpan is a part of nature, he 

 must be a competent interpreter of it. If he 

 is not a part of nature, then, whether we make 

 him godlike or a demon, we have, ip him, to 

 deal with something supernatural. It is true 

 that in a certain sense he is above nature, but 

 not in any sense which so dissociates him from 

 it as to prevent him from rationally thinking of 

 it in his own thoughts and speaking of it in his 



