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tific and the religious view of the universe. My argument 
to-day must be limited to one aspect of this very large question, 
which, perhaps, has not received sufficient consideration. It 
may be thus stated. The principles which Science is compelled 
to postulate, without which it could have no existence, which 
it therefore seeks to trace in Nature, and which, though it 
never can prove them to be universally true, yet so far as 
its powers extend it does verify, are common to Science arid 
Religion. Of these principles Religion supplies the on ly rational 
and adequate basis; indeed, the only basis that is not contra- 
dictory of Science. 
It is obvious that for this argument it will be necessary to 
consider carefully, and somewhat in detail, what the scientific 
view of the universe actually is ; and, rapid and imperfect as 
our survey must be, it must be comprehensive in its range. 
7. Science, as distinguished from such knowledge as we 
receive either from the immediate perceptions of the senses, or 
from intuitive cognitions, may be defined as the knowledge of 
the relations of natural existences or phenomena. Without 
admitting that all human knowledge is relative, we must allow 
that scientific knowledge is by its very nature so limited. It 
has been formed by observing the common elements in the 
different phenomena of the universe, and so tracing unity in 
the diversity of Nature, the One in the Many. And practically, 
as the actual outcome of such investigations, the scientific 
mode of regarding the universe means a view of its existences 
and phenomena, not as isolated objects, but as belonging to a 
universal order ; that order being twofold, — first, the contem- 
poraneous, or that in which time is not a factor; and, secondly, 
the consecutive , or the order of succession in time of natural 
phenomena. We cannot always treat of these two forms of 
order separately, for they are intimately connected ; yet it is 
important to observe the distinction. It is in the consecutive 
order, in which time is a factor, that Science attains its highest 
sphere, viz., that knowledge of phenomena as sequences of 
cause and effect which enables us to infer, by the process of 
deduction, particular results from general laws. But through- 
out the whole range of Science the three following principles 
will be found to be always postulated, — Unity, Order, and 
Causation ; and these, not as separate principles independent 
of each other, but the order is assumed to be the expression 
and manifestation of unity by means of causation, which itself 
proceeds from the unity, and, so far as it is the subject of 
exact Science, is identical with continuity. 
8. (I.) The simplest form of Science, it is evident, consists 
in that recognition of common elements in diverse objects 
