130 MEMOIR OP ALFRED SMEE. [Chap. XL 



one hand, and conceit, infidelity, and ignorance on the other. 

 We read — 



There are two modes by wMcli the human mind may be affected, and 

 all our actions regulated to a common purpose : one by the impression of 

 the nervous system by induction from below upwards, — that is, from the 

 action on the nerves of sensation through the mind to general laws ; and 

 the other from the effect of general laws, which act downwards by deduc- 

 tion to the particular instance. 



The one by induction is the ordinary result of the natural mind as 

 detailed in this work. The one by deduction is by the reception of the 

 laws of God as given us by religion. 



Are religion and reason discordant P No ! One affects from above 

 downward, the other from below upward ; and if both are right, they must 

 agree, they cannot possibly differ. The doctrines of religion would be vain 

 unless they are the laws of God and the word of God. In like manner it 

 must be remembered that the inductions of the human mind, if made in 

 sincerity and truth, are equally tie result of the mechanism created by God. 



Man should therefore accept as a fact that the results of the true 

 reason of man are identical with the laws of God, and tbe one originating 

 inductively from, the human mind should accord deductively with the 

 results which are obtained by the ordinances of religion. 



Mentally, if botb are right, thex-e can be no disagreement ; for whether 

 we examine the question from above downwards or from below upwards, no 

 difference can possibly exist, inasmuch as the mind is one whole. Then why 

 should there be, therefore, these continual differences between the teachers 

 of religion and the teachers of science ? At the present time it is difficult 

 to enter a church without hearing the name of science being held from the 

 pulpit to disrespect ; and it is equally difficult to enter the chambers of 

 science without hearing the pastor of religion in a like manner spoken of 

 with dissatisfaction. And why? The pastors of religion are, as a rule, 

 profoundly ignorant of the physical laws which govern the universe, and 

 the teachers of science are equally ignorant of the moral laws which govern 

 the actions of mankind. 



Then a little further on we read — 



The fault of the present day is the education of teachers of religion 

 at one school, where physical science is not only discarded but ignored, 

 and the education of teachers of science at another school, where the laws 

 of religion are almost as equally ignored. 



The remedy for this gigantic evil would be to teach all men to a 

 certain extent knowledge in common, so that when they diverge afterwards 

 into their special studies, science shall not be without religion, nor religion 

 without knowledge 



The priest trained to the study of the external world, and of the 

 natural operations of the human mind, is a totally different man from the 

 priest who ignores knowledge and the effect of reason. The one sees 

 Nature and God as they are, the other only by his own unenlightened mind, 

 which leads many to inconstancy, idolatry, and man-worship. .... 



Wherever religion and science do not exactly accord, the discrepancy 

 marks error. It is then worth auy labour to make them agree, by the con- 



