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the divine nature in itself, but (that which is properly religion) the 
relation and connection of the two beings — what God is to us, 
_ what he has done and will do for us, and what we are to be in re- 
gard to him.” 
Now science on her part has her records: they are the discoy- 
ered truths in the relation that man bears to the animate and in- 
animate kingdoms around him, so far as they are made out by him 
from time to time ; but as he has to proceed in his labors with im- 
perfect instruments and often equally imperfect senses, he has to 
correct himself over and over again; and his observations and 
theories, especially the latter, make frequent shifts, though each 
time he supposes that the truth has been reached. I will exem- 
plify this in a marked manner by an extract from a recent dis- 
course by Prof. Ferdinand Cohn, delivered before the Silesian 
Society for Natural Culture. In speaking of Humboldt and his 
Cosmos (which he styles the ‘‘ Divina Commedia” of Science, 
embracing the whole universe in its two spheres, heaven and 
earth) he says: “ But we cannot conceal from ourselves that the 
Cosmos, published twenty-five years ago, is in many of its parts 
now antiquated. Any one who to-day would attempt to recast 
the Cosmos must proceed like the Italian architect who took the 
pillars and blocks of the broken temples of antiquity, added new 
Ones, and rebuilt the whole after a new plan.” And I would 
Simply ask: When is this new structure to be torn down to form 
material for another? Surely the most enthusiastic admirer of 
the development of the last twenty-five years does not think that 
we have arrived at the end of all things! 
I will take yet another example. For the last fifty years or 
more the unity of the human race has been a most prolific subject 
of investigation and discussion, until it was generally conceded 
that there must have been more than one origin for the different 
Taces. In fact, theologians had already entered on that mis- 
thievous work called reconciling science and religion, and saying 
that after all there was some little mistake in the biblical record 
_ 0n that subject, and, if the Author would only permit, it would be 
Well to make a correction just there; but this could not be done, 
and there it stood—that all men were of one flesh. But science, 
_ Testless, changeful, moved on; and to-day the unity of the human 
‘Face is insisted on by nearly all the leading naturalists, who teach 
_ What Prof. De Quatrefages teaches, as uttered in a recent lecture 
