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and spiritual, not scientific, and they are to be read m that light. 
This is the true harmony, it is urged, between Science and Scrip- 
ture, and the only view which will stand the scrutiny of severe 
investigation. _ . , ^ 
5. Thus the threatened conflict between Science and Revealed 
Religion is averted, both by the Essayist, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and 
Canon Titcomb, by a treaty of partition. But the line of demarca- 
tion has a very important difference. With the Essayist, all belongs 
to Science, which men have faculties given them to investigate and 
understand. If there are any subjects beyond the range of our 
faculties, on which they can teach us nothing, these are resigned 
lo Supernatural Revelation. All the Intelligible belongs to Science. 
The portion left for a Divine message to occupy is the Unintelligible 
alone. In Mr. Spencer’s First Principles the division is nearly 
the same. The whole range of the Knowablc belongs to Science, 
and Religion consists only in blind emotions, of which the object is 
the Unknowable. Christian faith is a portionless orphan, turned 
adrift in the wide and pathless waste of the Unknowable, without a 
single footbreadth of certainty and truth which it can call its own. 
The partition in Canon Titcomb’s paper is different. All 
moral and spiritual truth is placed on one side of the line which 
parts the infallible from the fallible and imperfect ; all outward 
facts, and physical, zoological, and human changes on the other. 
6. But such a partition is really impossible. I do not see how 
my remarks on this point, in the The Bible and Modern Thought , 
are to be refuted or set aside. I have written as follows : •• 
“ The Bible is not a message to disembodied spirits. It is ad- 
dressed to man in his actual character, as a being composed of 
body and soul, born in the weakness of infancy, placed in the 
midst of this lower creation, and trained through his senses to the 
knowledge of himself, of nature, and of God. A revelation for 
such a being must include many facts, that belong to almost every 
field of scientific inquiry. Facts which belong to geography, 
chronology, botany, zoology, astronomy, and legislative and. political 
history, meet us in almost every page of the sacred narrative. Ihe 
attempt must be vain to maintain a doctrinal authority in Scrip- 
ture, and still to impute to it a merely human character, wherever 
it touches on questions of natural science. For the two elements 
are blended not less intimately than body and soul are united in 
man himself. ... , ,. 
7. “ Let us take the leading truth of Christianity, the resurrection 
of our Lord. None can be more central to the revelation, or more 
intensely spiritual. Yet it contains points of intimate connection 
with a dozen different sciences. It is a geographical truth ; for He 
rose from the tomb at Calvary, and ascended from Olivet. It is a 
