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says: “If youask him whence is this matter of which we have 
been discussing, who or what divides it into molecules, who or 
what impressed upon them the necessity of running into 
organic forms ?”’ he has no answer to give. Science is mute 
in reply to such questions. But, if the materialist is con- 
founded, and science rendered dumb, who else is prepared 
with a solution? To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ? 
Let us lower our heads, and acknowledge ignorance, priest and 
philosopher, one and all. 
But they recognise a something—or some One—beyond 
and above the physical universe, which fills their hearts and 
minds with “awe” and calls forth “ worship.” 
Thus, Tyndall says: ‘‘ When the stroke of action has ceased 
and the pause of reflection has set in, the scientific investigator 
finds himself overshadowed with the same awe which filled the 
mind of Immanuel Kant, when he said: ‘Two things fill me 
with awe, the starry heavens and the sense of moral respon- 
sibility in man,’ and ‘breaking contact with the hampering 
details of earth, it associates him with a power which gives 
fulness and tone to his existence, but which he can neither 
analyse nor comprehend.’” And Huxley speaks of the 
“necessity of cherishing the noblest and most human of 
man’s emotions,—Religion,—by worship, for the most part, 
of the silent sort at the altar of the Unknown and the 
Unknowable.” It is clear that Natural Theology has nothing 
to fear from the facts of physical science. But one of its 
greatest masters, Professor Huxley, recognises “that as the 
different flowers of moncecious plants must be brought 
together to render the tree fruitful, so it 1s with physical and 
metaphysical studies. J may be taking too much a naturalist’s 
view of the case, but I must confess that this is exactly my 
notion of what is to be done with metaphysics and physics. 
Their differences are complementary, not antagonistic, and 
thought will never be completely fruitful until the one 
unites with the other.’* Let us unite the testimony of 
the metaphysician to that already given by the physicists. 
Herbert Spencer says :—‘‘ Those who think that science is 
dissipating religious beliefs and sentiments seem unaware 
that whatever of mystery is taken from the old inter- 
pretation is added to the new. Or rather, we may say, 
that transference from one to the other is accompanied 
by imcrease, since for an explanation which has a seeming 
feasibility, science substitutes an explanation which, carrying 
* Lay Sermons, p. 371, 
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