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day shut the prospect of a glorious future against a suppliant 
world lying at the gate of the Eternal, — we care not to speak of 
them now. So again, there are the rank-and-file of science, 
collectors and sorters of facts, and nothing more, with no 
elevation of thought whatever ; we can only wish for them an 
advance in education — perhaps a course of Greek and Latin to 
brighten their wits. But the bickerings of real thinkers on 
either side ought to come to an end. It ought, too, to be 
seen that as surely as oscillations of Uranus detected a far-off 
planet, and Neptune was revealed at last where the Divine 
hand had ordered his path unseen as yet, so a confessed want 
in science, when it tries to trace the path to the origin of all 
phenomena and spring of all power, points with unerring finger 
to perturbations which may reveal the spot where the action of 
the Divine will be found. We “ look beyond and behind ail the 
forces of nature ; ” and even the modern doctrine of the “ con- 
servation of forces,” just telling that the sum of the pheno- 
menal remains the same, again teaches us to look beyond the 
material organization, — even to the pre-phenomenal source 
of motion, and seek the only answer to the question — “ Who 
made and orders all these ? ” 
31. That the present scientific results are surely leading the 
way to a higher religious Philosophy, and will conduct to an 
advanced Ontology, we have no doubt. At the same p reS entposi- 
time it should be confessed that the present vague- tion. 
ness of religious belief, that is, absence of dogma in the true 
sense of the term, is one of the causes of unbelief among some of 
the best intellects of our time ; though we think the logical re- 
sults of that unbelief will at length react on the higher religious 
philosophy. The more earnest, real, and logical science becomes, 
the more we shall have reason to rejoice. There are no words 
in Dr. Tyndalhs book more to be prized than these, with which 
we make to him our closing appeal: — We have “but one 
desire — to know the truth ; and but one fear — to believe a lie” 
(p. 167). 
If it is still for a while to be part of our trial that half- 
digested theories of science, and “ private interpretations of 
scripture” are to be put in continual collision by less than 
half-educated minds on either side, let us have patience. Our 
forbearance may not be misplaced, if we pause in pressing on 
those who seem now to be antagonists ; in order that they may 
have the opportunity of recovering themselves. It is enough 
for the present, to point out that no one established scientific 
fact or thoroughly sure scientific theory, has ever been found 
to contradict the Bible fairly interpreted by common sense. 
