4 PROCEEDINGS MANCHESTER INSTITUTE 



new sciences of Meteorology, Spectroscopic Astronomy and Lith- 

 ography have taken their places among the older ones. 



The law known as the conservation of energy, the indestructi- 

 bility of what is called force or matter, has been accepted in this 

 period. 



There have been many interesting and valuable discoveries in 

 chemistry, one of them, that all gases, including air, are cap- 

 able of liquefaction under cold and pressure. 



Many things, too, have been settled with more or less satisfac- 

 tion and certainty that had a theological or quasi-theological bear- 

 ing. Thus, no informed man now limits the age of man on the 

 earth to the old traditional six thousand years. Although the 

 extreme antiquity of man in Lyell's Geology has not been accept- 

 ed, scientists are agreed that man co-existed with the mammoth 

 and cave bear. Theological opposition to evolution and to science 

 in general is rapidly dying out. Asa Gray, the profoundest phil- 

 osopher among modern evolutionists, demonstrated that the the- 

 ory of evolution was not inconsistent with theistic faith, and Prof. 

 James, of Harvard, has shown that the doctrine of immortality is 

 not inconsistent with the facts of physiological psychology. 



Churchmen are generally coming to see that a man may be 

 both a convinced evolutionist and a good Christian. The odium 

 theologiaiin is ceasing. Science has fought her fight with super- 

 stition and won the victory. There has come a faith that it can- 

 not be injurious to discover and reveal the truth about the uni- 

 verse ; that all truth is related and harmonious ; consequently 

 that what is true in science will not conflict with what is true in 

 theology, and what is true in theology will not conflict with what 

 is true in science. Among great leaders of science there are few 

 pronounced atheists, and among great theologians few if any 

 deniers of the generally accepted laws and facts of science. 

 Science herself has been the greatest of all irenica. We have 

 come to an age of peace and the echoes of an old controversy 

 are dying. 



What can be said of these thirty years from the standpoint of 

 art 1 I confess that I am unable to speak of this as an expert. 

 But to my thought, if you take art in the sense of the production 



