TWO PATHS, ONE GOAL. 



93 



articles Eeligion must ever remain outside tlie province of 

 inductive Science, though it must be seen also that the number 

 of those articles is diminishing as time passes. It would have 

 been well for the relations of Eeligion and Science if the Church 

 of Eome had recognised in the sixteentli and seventeenth 

 centuries the truths that Bacon saw and taught. A pleasing 

 exception to the strained relations between Eeligion and Science 

 in the end of the sixteenth, and first half of the seventeenth, 

 century was seen in the work and teaching of Harvey, the 

 great physician who discovered the circulation of the blood. 



Science made a great step in advance in the reign of Charles 

 the Second, when the Eoyal Society was formed ; but this in 

 no way affected the relations between Eeligion and Science at 

 tlie time. Doubtless as the mysteries of the natural world 

 became more and more unfolded by such men as Isaac Xewton, 

 Halley, Limicneus, Buffbn, and Cuvier, the ground was being 

 prepared for a deeper and more reverent outlook upon the 

 world around ; and yet for a time in France and England there 

 seemed to be a change for the worse in the relations between 

 Eelioion and Science throuoh the Qrowino; achievements of the 



o coo 



latter. But such hostility as then existed was neither the fault 

 of Eeligion nor Science, but of that sceptical spirit of the 

 eighteenth century, which was glad enough to avail itself of 

 the new discoveries of Science if only Eeligion, as represented 

 by the Church of the day in England and France, could be 

 injured. In the latter half of the eighteenth century Kant 

 and Laplace and Hutton and Herschel opened up new helds of 

 speculation and investigation into the origin of the world, the 

 constitution of the heavens, and the structure of the earth's 

 crust, all these subjects being necessarily such as would touch 

 many of the articles of the Church's teaching, but, as we know 

 now, not such as, in any way, should clash with the teaching of 

 Scripture. A counterblast of great value and power was issued 

 by Paley in the early years of the nineteenth century, in his 

 Natural Theology and Evidences of Christianity, marking the 

 need then felt by the Church for a reply to her numerous 

 assailants. But then, as in previous generations, the spirit of 

 Science was not that of Eeligion, and the two spheres remained 

 much apart until again in the middle of the nineteenth century 

 very hot conflict arose out of the work of Spencer and 

 Darwin, and Bishop Temple took his part in it by contributions 

 to Essays and Reviews. From those days to the present time 

 the conflict has been growing less and less hot ; and such 

 lectures as those of 1884 by Temple have taken their share in 



