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LECTURE VI. 



SCIENCE AND REVELATION. 



THUS far we have proceeded solely on 

 scientific grounds, and have seen that 

 Monism and Agnosticism fail to account for 

 nature. We may therefore feel ourselves jus- 

 tified in assuming, as the only promising solu- 

 tion of the enigma of existence, the being 

 of a Divine Creator. But this does not wholly 

 exhaust the relations of science to religion. 

 When Science has led us into the presence of 

 the Creator, she has brought us to the thresh- 

 old of religion, and there she suggests the 

 possibility that the spirit of man may have 

 other relations with God beyond those estab- 

 lished by merely physical law. Science may 

 venture to say: "If all nature expresses the 

 will of the Creator as carried out in his laws, 

 if the instinct of lower animals is an inspira- 

 tion of God, should we not expect that there 

 will be laws of a higher order regulating the 

 free moral nature of man, and that there will 



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