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cannot exist in the known universe. Yet. by its means, we obtain 

 expressions from wkich. sines and cosines are calculated with any 

 required degree of accuracy. And these, when tabulated, enable 

 us to measure distances, whether accessible or not, even those of 

 the heavenly bodies ; also to sail the oceans, to use big guns, etc. 



The science of Mathematics, which has so humble a mundane 

 origin in common facts of number and space, enforces our recogni- 

 tion of the existence of transcendental entities, mysteriously con- 

 nected with common fact. This may ease the thought of a spiritual 

 body, which St. Paul says that " there is.'' And it helps the mind 

 to encounter the tremendous cogency of the evidence of the facts of 

 experience. 



^Ir. M. L. Rouse. B.A.. B.L. : Does not the lecturer s theory that 

 men would have died physically (although not spiritually), even if 

 Adam had not sinned, conflict with the statement of Holy Scripture 

 in Romans v, 13. 14 : Until the law sin was in the world : but sin 

 is not imputed when there is no law. Xevertheless death reigned 

 from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned 

 after the likeness of Adam's transgression." Surely a distinc- 

 tion is drawn there between the punishment of a person's actual 

 sins and his physical death, and this death is said to have befallen 

 everyone as a result of Adam's transgression (including even infants 

 who have never actually sinned). 



In answer to the contention that physical death was needful in 

 order to prevent the overpeopling of the Earth, a previous speaker 

 has suggested what was already in my mind, that the Creator could 

 easily from time to time have transferred portions of the vast human 

 family to other worlds. Mr. Maunder did, indeed, on a former 

 occasion prove that Mars and all the outer planets of our Solar 

 System are unfit for human habitation, and gave us some reason to 

 think that the inner ones were unfit also. But it is safe to assume 

 that the hundreds of millions of suns which we call stars have planets 

 revolving around them, and that very many of these are suited to 

 be our dwelling place, and perhaps are only waiting to receive 

 believers after resurrection. Yet the Earth might never have 

 become too full of people up to the present time ; since it is quite 

 certain that if our huge tropical forests were thinned, our deserts 

 irrigated with artesian wells, and the soil deeply dug and well manured, 



