fective that they can only derive any weight at all in the 
question from the supposed necessity of Science tracing at the 
same time both the order and the causation. 
29. However, I am not now discussing, nor do I intend to 
discuss, the subject of any discrepancies between science and 
religion : both affirm the same fundamental principles, and 
must also hold that these principles have a common root. 
Science assumes them, and must do so as necessary to itself ; 
and it endeavours to prove its assumptions to be true by 
the agreement of their results with its own observations. 
Religion derives the same principles from its belief in 
one Infinite and Almighty Intelligence, in Whom they 
all subsist, and Who is the basis of them all. And it 
confirms its belief by the evidences of order and design 
which Nature exhibits. Often, indeed, as we have found 
alike in the Unity, the Order, and Causation of the uni- 
verse, it is absolutely impossible for Science to discover the 
connecting links or prove the principles from Nature. As 
the wise man said, — “ It is the glory of God to conceal 
a thing.”* But it is no part of Religion to question 
the evidences which Nature gives of these principles so 
far as Science is able to interpret it ; nor is it any part of 
Science to imagine that it has discovered all the causes at 
work in God's universe, as if there might not be many far 
more powerful and active than any which our very limited 
experience and faculties apprehend. Meanwhile, Science itself 
teaches us quite enough of the infinite complexity of the 
causes at work in Nature, and of the indeterminate character 
of their effects, to prove that their operation not only can- 
not preclude, but even demands the action of supreme and 
infinite intelligence for the ultimate result. This (to use 
the words of Professor Jevons) ‘ f must have been contained 
in the aggregate of the causes, and these causes, so far as 
we can see, were subject to the arbitrary choice ” (I should 
say, are subject to the Will and Reason) “ of the Creator.” f 
30. And this leads us to another truth, in which all these 
principles, whether regarded from the scientific or the religious 
point of view, meet and coincide. It is a common notion 
that the effect of the scientific view of the universe, as com- 
pared with those which our senses give us, is to get rid of 
its mysteries, and make the whole intelligible. Religion, on 
the contrary, is imagined to be full of unintelligible mysteries, 
and its condemnation, with superficial minds, is, that it cannot 
* Prov. xxv. 2. 
+ Principles of Science , ii., 462. 
