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the same ; mitst be the same, else the law of con- 

 tinuity, upon -which he has built, fails. But he 

 wisely refrains from applying these tests in detail to 

 the spiritual life of the Christian. He says : " The 

 experiment would be a delicate one. It might not 

 be open to every one to attempt it. This is a 

 scientific question ; and the experiment would have 

 to be conducted under proper conditions and by 

 competent persons." 



There is little mystery in the universe to a mind 

 like Drummond's ; or if there is any mystery, he 

 knows exactly what and where it is ; he has cornered 

 md labeled it, so that it shall give him no further 

 trouble. 



We hardly need the confession which he makes 

 in his preface, that his science and his religion have 

 got so thoroughly mixed that either can be expressed 

 in the terms of the other. For a time, he says 

 (while he was teaching the two, one on week days, 

 the other on Sundays), he succeeded in keeping 

 them shut off from one another in two separate 

 " compartments " of his mind. " But gradually the 

 wall of partition showed symptoms of giving way. 

 The two fountains of knowledge also slowly began 

 to overflow, and finally their waters met and mingled. 

 The great change was in the compartment which 

 held the religion. It was not that the well there 

 was dried ; still less that the fermenting waters were 

 washed away by the flood of science. The actual 

 contents remained the same. But the crystals of 

 former doctrines were dissolved ; and, as they pre- 



