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than that engendered by the study of the sciences pure and sim- 
ple. It may, also, be freely conceded that the too exclusive study 
of natural and physical science is apt, in certain temperaments, 
to harden the mind, to close the eyes to the higher and less 
tangible elements of human life, and to disturb the true balance 
between the intellectual and emotional faculties. Science, how- 
ever, when rightly pursued, yields a culture in which these are 
by no means necessary or inevitable defects, and which, if sui 
generis, is, nevertheless, real and abiding. It brings man into 
harmony with the natural world in which his present lot is 
cast ; it shows him, on the one hand, how profoundly ignorant 
he is of the real essence of even the material things around 
him; and, on the other hand, it leads him from Nature to 
Nature’s God, and teaches him to find below the rind and 
surface of the cosmos the Divine Spirit that dwells in the inner- 
most recesses of natural phenomena. To the religious tempera- 
ment, the study of science must ever conduce to the highest of 
all forms of culture — the culture that is implied by reverence. 
Relegated to its true place in the educational system, the scales 
removed from its eyes, and its self-imposed fetters struck off, 
Science will yet see that its true mission is only partially dis- 
charged when men have learnt the laws and investigated the 
phenomena of the material. A larger and by far more im- 
portant portion of its task must consist in developing a pro- 
founder admiration for the wondrous works of the Creator as 
displayed in the visible universe, a truer insight into the real 
objects of human life, and a more intelligent and helpful com- 
passion for those who ignorantly sin against the inevitable laws 
of existence. 
Nor need we think that the capabilities of science as a means 
of culture are exhausted, or so much perhaps as dimly guessed 
at, by the present generation. In demonstrating to us that all 
which we can learn by the senses is but the sequence of pheno- 
mena, Science at the same time leaves the field clear to philoso- 
phy, to show us that below the phenomenal is the real. That 
man’s sensuous nature is, to a certain extent and in a certain 
sense, at discord with his higher spiritual nature, is true ; and 
the same truth is expressed, in other language, by saying that 
there is an apparent discord between Science and Religion. 
Assuredly, however, this discord is but apparent, and will 
vanish as our vision becomes more enlightened, and our know- 
ledge more widely extended. For many generations now, some 
of the highest intellects of which humanity can boast have 
occupied themselves with the study of natural phenomena. 
With passionate patience, uncompromising labour, uncalculating 
