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Louis Agassiz. 



to appear on the platform I could not absolutely 

 refuse, because as a citizen it was in my heart to 

 honour, as far as in me lay, this memorial meeting, 

 and as a member of this Society to aid in tendering 

 our respects to the memory of our illustrious dead. 

 Another reason for opening my lips is to endorse 

 the sentiments of Rev. Dr. Stebbins, just uttered in 

 regard to the alleged or supposed antagonism of 

 science to revealed religion. Believing as I do, as 

 intimated in the reference made to the opinions of 

 the late Louis Agassiz, that there is as much dogma 

 in science, or even more than in religion, I am ready 

 to say and boldly maintain that there is not, and 

 cannot be, any real antagonism or controversy 

 between true science and true religion. All truth is 

 of God and is a unit. Science and religion are twin 

 sisters from the throne of the Eternal Lawgiver. 

 There is no real controversy between them — no 

 strife but as to which branch of knowledge can do 

 most for mankind. Properly interpreted, they come 

 from the same glorious hand and tend to the same 

 result — the happiness of mankind and the glory of 

 the Creator. I honour science, and heartily bid God- 

 speed to every honest investigator of the laws of the 

 universe. As a theologian I have never had the 

 slightest fear concerning the advance of true science. 

 Our natural philosophers cannot travel so far but 

 they will find the Creator has been there before 

 them ; and as they climb through space and journey 

 among planets and systems unnumbered, they will 

 all find that the ladder by which they have ascended 

 to the very outposts of the universe was built for 



