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is often made, either explicitly or implicitly, and in 
our own times particularly on behalf of the mathema- 
tical and physical sciences, that scientific results repre- 
sent complete and “objective” reality. This claim can- 
not be justified. 
We learn to know God, not by any process of ab- 
stract reasoning or external revelation, but by practic- 
ally realising in our own everyday lives, and those of 
our fellow men, that we are not mere individuals but 
one with a higher Reality. In losing our individual 
lives we find our true life, and in no part of human 
activity is this losing of the individual self more clearly 
realised than in scientific work. When, but only 
when, we see that the natural world appears to us 
as it does through the devoted scientific work which 
has fashioned its present appearance, we have found 
God in the natural world. The life of such a man as 
Charles Darwin is in truth a standing proof of the 
existence of God. 
I think the Founders of the Silliman Lectures must 
have felt this when they left complete liberty to each 
lecturer to treat his subject just as seemed best for his 
immediate purpose, and without reference to theology. 
