Ill 
To sum up all: Our authors regard the whole Universe as 
Eternal ; not the very things, but a state of things, even in 
Invisible, like the present physical Universe; therefore also evil 
is Eternal (p. 207) ( i.e . from everlasting to eveilast- 
P ,£ mP ‘ ing) ! They cannot imagine a Universe without a 
Hell— Gehenna. Still, they admit that a moral devel^men 
impossible hereafter seems possibly hinted at m the New ’ Te 
physical fires, tamen t, after which “the last enemy shall be de- 
stroyed. ^ Law of Continuity is the great scientific 
coS&£* ° f principle which has guided all this inquiry (p. 209). 
Etenfity 1 of the The whole Universe is of a piece. lhe 
whole universe. £ nc [ no impenetrable barrier to the intellectual 
development of the individual. Death is no such barrier; 
continuity applies throughout. T . a 
The nebulous beginning of the Visible Universe an 
fiery termination were known to the early Christians w h y 
as to us (p. 209). They also, with us, looked for immortality. 
Science, trulv developed, is the most efficient supporter of 
Christianity. On physical principles, the Universal and 
Eternal Law of Continuity may be maintained, and we heie 
show a ground on which Science and Religion may meet to- 
gether (p. 211), — as on a luminiferous “ bridge between the 
so-called visible and the invisible ! 
PART II. 
37. The authors of this interesting work have now spoken. 
It remains that we express ourselves as critics. Of course ic 
supposition of “Continuity” lias always been acted 
no^newiy'dis- on bv those who have acted at all in the Visible 
covered law. Universe; and it is here represented too much as 
a discovery. A strange surprise it would be, if at any 
time intelligent beings had been found going on acting, 
without expecting connected results — results warranted only 
on what has now gravely acquired the name of a Law of 
Continuity.” All philosophy, all experience, and all beiiet in 
causation have always taken this for gi anted. 
