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as far as it ignores or denies the opposite truth, and they 
must both be combined in a true theory of the God-man. 
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The theory must not go beyond the facts. But how hard it 
is for imagination to bear the harness and the bridle ! We see 
a piece of rubbed amber giving rise to certain phenomena of 
attraction and repulsion, and we spring to the supposition of 
of an “ electric fluid.” We count seven colours m the solar 
spectrum, and we at once associate it with the gamut of music ; 
or we read, “ Bender unto Cassar the things that are Oaesar s, 
and we conclude the divine right of kings. Of course it is 
when we have a strong preconceived notion, that we are sure 
to see proofs of it everywhere. A man is easily supported on 
a one-legged stool if his own two feet are firmly fixed on the 
Oh for that intellectual temperance which would prevent our 
seeing in Nature the products of our own brain, or drawing 
out of a Scripture statement what we have ourselves put into 
it beforehand ! 
A good theory must include all the facts m its explanation. 
That advance towards a true conception of Nature which should 
mark the progress of every physical science, is only to be ob- 
tained by the gradual replacement of the first hypotheses by 
such as are founded on a larger generalization. Thus the idea 
that heat was some imponderable form of matter, which could 
be transferred from one substance to another, and could remain 
latent among its particles, was once deemed competent to 
explain the various phenomena ; but now its incompetence is 
fully recognized, and we are led to regard heat as one ot the 
ever- shifting forms of force, so that our measure of it now is 
expressed in terms of foot-pounds, that is, of the amount o 
force required to lift a pound weight through a space of twelve 
inches. Similarly, we should expect that in the progress o 
Divine science our doctrines should become fuller and truer, 
as -we sound more thoroughly the depths of the Divme wore 
and the dealings of Providence. I must, as before select an 
instance. Suppose we are investigating the benefits ^hic 
flow to mankind from Christ's death, we must enter into the 
ineanino- of those typical sacrifices under the old dispensations 
hy which atonement was made ; we must listen to the utterances 
of the prophets ; we must catch the allusions of Christ to that 
future scene of suffering which appears to have been constantly 
present in His mind; we must study the simple narratives ot the 
