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of them are invariable sequences. The two former are in the 

 mind, as aspects of the active self, and by ils own laws referred 

 to other beings, cs sniiilar activities : the latter are in the mind 

 as observers of passive results which it only observes. 



As there has been a senseless irrational antagonism between 

 science and the christian faith, whose mechods and spheres differ 

 so widely, so these may seem to be between the empirical road, 

 the bro'ad high- way of the science, and the narrow, diflEicult path 

 of metaphysics. But the antagonism is not real. The aims are 

 different, the mental powers employed are distinct, the method, 

 consequently, is different. The instrument of the one is induc- 

 tion, of the other analysis. The scientist has sometimes vexed 

 us, sometimes provoked a smile, by the assumption that all things 

 in heaven and earth are subject to him. But we have looked 

 again, and there was speaking another free, proud self, like us ; 

 he has been taking for granted what we wished to understand, or, 

 at least, to investigate more closely by asking, how he knew, and 

 with what, and by what does he know anything, and so we only 

 smiled at him, and said, let us both go our several ways, and do 

 the best we can for the truth. 



