22 MAN : 



stitutionin 1863, " The man of science ought to go on 

 honestly, patiently, diffidently, observing and storing 

 up his observations, and carrying his reasonings un- 

 flinchingly to their legitimate conclusions, convinced 

 that it would be treason at once to the dignity of 

 science and religion, if he sought to help either by 

 swerving ever so little from the straight rule of 

 truth." 



And, once for all, let it be observed, that if there 

 be any irreverence in dealing with such questions as 

 man's origin, antiquity, and destiny, that irreverence 

 must rest with those who would circumscribe the 

 range of reason, and seek by unworthy clamour to 

 deter the human intellect from arriving at some con- 

 ception, however faint, of those laws by which the 

 Creator has chosen to sustain the phenomena of this 

 marvellous universe. Man's relations to external 

 nature, his relations to his Grod, and his relations to 

 his fellow-men, determine at once the range of his 

 knowledge and the sum of his obligations ; and un- 

 less these relations be understood — and this is what 

 science is always striving after — there never can be 

 fulfilment of the duties they involve. It thus be- 

 comes truly pitiable to hear from certain quarters 

 their misrepresentations of scientific aims and scien- 

 tific conclusions. In fact, it is easier to bear than to 

 hear them; and one can scarcely avoid the conviction 



