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— and this evidence abounds in all we see. In re- 

 inforcing this evidence, and in adding to it, Science 

 is doing boundless work in the present day. It is 

 not the extent of our knowledge, but rather 

 the limits of it, that physical research teaches us 

 to see and to feel the most. Of course, in so far 

 as its discoveries are really true, its influence must 

 be for good. To doubt this were to doubt that 

 all truth is true, and that all truth is God's. 



There are eddies in every stream — eddies where 

 rubbish will collect, and circle for a time. But the 

 ultimate bearing of scientific truth cannot be mis- 

 taken. Nothing is more remarkable in the present 

 state of physical research than what may be called 

 the transcendental character of its results. And 

 what is transcendentalism but the tendency to 

 trace up all things to the relation in which they 

 stand to abstract Ideas ? And what is this but to 

 bring all physical phenomena nearer and nearer into 

 relation with the phenomena of Mind ? The old 

 speculations of Philosophy which cut the ground 

 from Materialism by showing how little we know 

 of Matter, are now being daily reinforced by the 

 subtle analysis of the Physiologist, the Chemist, 



