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regular streets, in each of which a certain uniformity prevails ; 
while the streets themselves are arranged according to that 
particular order which the founder of the city had previously 
anticipated and designed.* 
The Philosophy of Lamarck and his Disciples. 
25. Wise and merciful forethought, which provides an adap- 
tation of means to meet the wants of the creature, is a truth 
pencilled with light through every department of the Divine 
handiwork. 
This universal principle, so beautifully illustrative of the 
ever-present superintendence of God over His works, produces 
an ardency of expectation in His creatures which enables us 
to believe everything not incredible, and to hope for every- 
thing not impossible. Therefore intelligent believers in the 
Divine authority of the Bible are of all men the most 
Catholic in their recognition of scientific progress and the 
least dogmatical upon the unsolved problems of creation. 
For they know that there are difficulties as far above reason 
as reason is above instinct, and also that He who in the 
riches of transcendant wisdom arranged the Divine history of 
the Bible has also arranged the constitution and the course 
of Nature. We may therefore look calmly on the discoveries 
of modern science, for it must be evident that truth can 
never be opposed to truth. So that the facts of Natural 
Philosophy, instead of being opposed to the truth of Scripture, 
must of necessity be proofs and illustrations of each other, 
and of the variegated goodness of God, and, in coming from 
our minds, form kindred portions of one great whole. 
26. The only limit to our belief is the impossible. This 
is that border-land where the war of words begins. Yet even 
here we are not left to blind conjecture. Wanton fate does 
not sport with the universe as the disciples of Lamarck would 
lead us to suppose. From facts already known we can make 
progress towards facts yet unknown, but as finite creatures we 
are gently and mercifully reminded at almost every stage of 
our inquiry that the infinite and unknowable is immea- 
surably above our reach, and lies in the boundless horizon 
beyond us. For want of this modest deference to the will of 
* Ogilvie on the Principles of Organic Architecture. 
