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strong, and successful administration of his diocese, and a repu- 

 tation grew up around him for sound sense, clear-headed justice, 

 and energy, and he for long retired from anything of a con- 

 troversial nature. He appears to have been one of the men 

 who find early in life the conclusions of their maturity, and 

 questions wliich were burning ones for most religious people in 

 1884 had been settled by him for himself long before. He lived, 

 and died in 1902, in the intellectual as well as the religious 

 faith of his early manhood. Such a man was well calculated 

 and fitted to deliver these Bampton Lectures. 



Of the subject itself it is enough to say that all the mental, 

 moral, and spiritual life of man, as well as the physical, is 

 embraced by the two related spheres of Religion and Science. 

 The Lectures are in the nature of an eirenicon, and we are well 

 aware that in 1884 this was the needed attitude of a religious 

 teacher. To-day the two friends need hardly more than to 

 know one another better. Except among extreme men on each 

 side estrangement and antagonism should exist no more. The 

 Rev. H. E. Fox spoke some very wise words which are applicable 

 here, and it were well for us if we could keep them in mind as 

 a motto in the discussion of Religion and Science, he said : 

 Our duty is to find, if ive can, ivhat ctf/reement lies behind, our 

 differences, and. use the one to get rid of the other!' 



Religious Belief. 



The eight Bampton Lectures are marked by openness of mind, 

 great knowledge, and a clear grasp of the principles of both 

 Religion and Science, and by a devout piety. In the first place 

 the origin and nature of Religious and of Scientific beliefs are 

 discussed. The former is traced to the voice within, that moral 

 law which exists and operates apart from, but not in contradic- 

 tion to, the teaching of Revelation. It is shown that this law 

 in its government of the world reveals itself as possessing the 

 distinctive mark of personality, or purpose and will, giving no 

 countenance to the theories of Hartmann, that the Divine 

 Being is an unconscious Being, or of Schopenhauer which 

 identifies Him with Will. The moral law has final supremacy 

 in the life of man; and later, in Lecture V, it is pointed out 

 with great force that the means of developing and completing 

 spiritual, knowledge is Revelation. 



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