254 | paldvesa of doh Li. Le Oonte. 
continually exhibits to us higher and more beautiful relations 
between ane phenomenon of nature “than it hath entered into 
the mind of man to conceive.” Let not our vanity lead us to 
believe that because God has deigned to guide our steps a few 
paces on the road to truth, we are justified in speaking as if 
He had taken us into intimate companionship, and informed us 
of all His counsels. 
If I have exposed my views on these subjects to you in an 
ais sy manner, you will hae that in minds capable of 
sate resemble our ot and controlling operations which we 
What then is the strict relation of natural history or biology 
to that great mass of learning and influence which is commonly 
called theology ; — 8 that smaller mass of belief and action 
which is called reli 
ence and religion are marae i each other. Others again that 
h answering "the query above eon oe it will be necessary 
to separate the suencal truth of religion from the accessories 
of tradition, usage, and mest of all, organizations and inter- 
pretations, which have, in the lapse of time, gathered around 
the primitive or revealed truth. 
ith the latter the scientific man must deal exactly like 
other men; he must take it, or reject it, according to his spirit- 
ual gifts, but he must not, whatever be his personal views, 
discuss it or assail it as a man of science, for within his domain 
of investigation it does not belong. 
With regard to the accessories of traditions, ogee 
~ our answer may be clearer when we have yr reviewed 
me recent events in what has been written iinet as the Con- 
flict of Religion and Science. Some centuries ago, great theo- 
logical repre ba (Rye bang by the announcement that the 
sun and not was the = of the planetary system. 
