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divine, then this is only another way of saying that nothing is 
absolute but God. The existence of a Divine, omnipotent 
Governor is proved. In this way the Divine Personality 
becomes the great objective truth in all the domains of 
thought, to the utter displacement of Pantheism, and in full 
vindication of the accepted theology of the Bible. The 
immanence of God in creation, which is affirmed in Scripture, 
becomes equally the testimony of nature. 
IY. Conclusion. 
54. We arrive at this conclusion, that scientific facts are 
explicable by the scientist only up to a certain point. The 
real nature of the things themselves lies beyond the utmost 
research, and yet they are not infinite, for they are regulated. 
55. As nature itself is not infinite, so neither is it personal, 
as some subtle metaphysicians have surmised, after the example 
of the followers of Confucius. We are left, therefore, without 
any adequate solution, from the phenomena themselves, of the 
Theistic problem arising from all things around and within 
us. Nature is our companion and guide until we come to the 
higher solitudes of thought, where she veils her face and 
pleads incapacity to penetrate beyond. 
56. It is a strange and wonderful spectacle that we 
behold in the great Temple of Study, — on the one hand, the 
priests of physical science inspecting, as it were, the entrails 
of their opened victims, as of old, refusing all other omens, — 
pausing in vain for a reply to their questionings ; and on 
the other, the priests of mental and moral science bending 
over their own inner consciousness, and refusing all auguries 
besides, also waiting in silence, and in vain. And is there no 
reply ? 
57. Yes ! for although there is no science of the Infinite, 
yet the Infinite is cognizable, and its cognizance is the founda- 
tion of natural religion, for it displays to us the only illimitable, 
the only unconditioned power, the Personal God. In spite of all 
the statements, or even apparent demonstrations, that God is 
unknowable, the fact remains that in all ages and places men 
have appeared who have placed God in this otherwise unknown 
infinite. Whether it be by intuition, according to one school, 
or by the aid of intuitive conditions, according to another, the 
conception is widespread, and all but unanimous. Let it be 
conceded that there is no science of Natural Theology, yet it 
can never be said that there is no sentiment concerning it. 
