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grateful to religious men who are afraid of being 

 thought to be afraid of Science. To these, and 

 to all who are troubled to reconcile what they 

 have been taught to believe with what they have 

 come to know, this doctrine affords a natural and 

 convenient escape. There is but one objection 

 to it — but that is the fatal objection — that it is 

 not true. The spiritual world and the intellectual 

 world are not separated after this fashion : and 

 the notion that they are so separated does but 

 encourage men to accept in each, ideas which will 

 at last be found to be false in both. The truth 

 is, that there is no branch of human inquiry, how- 

 ever purely physical, which is more than the word 

 "branch" implies; — none which is not connected 

 through endless ramifications with every other, 

 — and especially with that which is the root and 

 centre of them all. If He who formed the mind 

 be one with Him who is the Orderer of all things 

 concerning which that mind is occupied, there 

 can be no end to the points of contact between 

 our different conceptions of them, of Him, and 

 of ourselves. 



The instinct which impels us to seek for harmony 



