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son and of imagination fall back with a sense 

 of impotence upon some favourite phrase — some 

 form of words built up out of the materials of 

 analogy and conjecture. We beat against the 

 bars in vain. The only real rest is in the con- 

 fession of ignorance, and the confession, too, 

 that all ultimate Truth is beyond the reach of 

 Science. It is probable that even the nearest 

 methods of Creation, though far short of ulti- 

 mate truths, lie behind a veil too thick for us to 

 penetrate. It is here surely, if it is anywhere in 

 the sphere of physical investigation, that the Man 

 of Science may lay down the weapons of his 

 analysis, and say, " I do not exercise myself in 

 great matters, or in things which are too high for 

 me."* 



There is at least one conclusion which is cer- 

 tain, namely, this — that no theory in respect to 

 the means and method employed in the work of 

 Creation — provided such theory takes in all the 

 facts — can have the slightest effect in removing 

 that work from the relation in which it stands to 

 the attributes of Will. Creation by Law — Evolu- 



* Psalm cxxxi. 



