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service, by discovering that, though its own powers are strictly 
limited to the region of the phenomenal, there exists outside 
and above the phenomenal another world of existences — the 
only real one — which requires the employment of non-scientific 
faculties for its investigation and apprehension. Nor will 
Science, in making this discovery, be in any proper sense com- 
mitting a “ happy dispatch ” upon itself. On the contrary, 
Science will not know its true strength, nor attain its full 
stature, till it has entered into an alliance with Religion, and is 
reconciled with Reason. It must learn to admit its own limita- 
tions, and to recognize the comparatively small field which it 
covers ; it must feel that it deals only with the husk and the 
shell, and that the kernel and the life-blood belong to something 
higher and deeper ; it must recognize, in the imperishable 
words of Teufelsdrockh, that “ the universe is not dead and 
demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres, but God-like and 
our Father’s/'’ 
In considering the true position which Science ought to 
occupy as an educational agent, it is perhaps to be admitted 
with regret, that, if studied in accordance with some of its 
prevalent doctrines at the present day, it does not greatly con- 
duce to a higher culture — certainly not so much so as it ought 
to do. The work of destruction, however, is always easier than 
that of construction, and is, moreover, sometimes an essential 
preliminary to it. You cannot put new wine into old bottles; 
and the failure of Science as an apparatus of culture is e£ tem- 
porary accident, and not a permanent necessity. This failure 
is inevitable so long as Science is held to be exclusively con- 
cerned with phenomena alone, and to have no secondary 
interest in causes and ends — so long as it is held that she is 
to exclude or deny all but material explanations or ideas, to 
sever herself from the emotions, and to keep herself estranged 
from her sisters, Philosophy and Religion. The laws of Science, 
however, are but the laws of the moral world in a lower plane, 
and embodied in the natural sphere. Science may, if she 
pleases, confine herself to the study of the series of effects, of 
which Nature is the sum ; but it is at her own risk, if she 
ignore the corresponding series of causes which form the 
domain of Philosophy, or the corresponding series of ends, with 
which Religion has more especially to deal. Once united with 
these higher departments of knowledge, as assuredly she will 
be, Science will enter upon a new and higher life, and will be 
prepared to play her proper part in the development and 
regeneration of humanity. 
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