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for the Advancement of Science ” has said something to this effect, — that 
men who discovered facts in science were not always the men to theorise 
upon them. At all events, this appears to me to be true in the case of Dr. 
Max Muller. Notwithstanding that he has brought before us, in his “ Chips 
from a Germau Workshop,” so many facts of great importance, and in 
thorough accordance with Holy Scripture, nevertheless, when he begins to 
theorise upon those facts in his “ Hibbert Lecture,” he proves himself un- 
equal to the task. In my humble opinion, and to my great sorrow, there 
seldom was in the case of one man so great a fall from a high degree of ortho- 
doxy to so low a depth of heterodoxy, as these works show. I think it well 
to inform the meeting that the book called “ Chips from a German Work- 
shop ” was published fifteen or twenty years ago, whereas the “ Hibbert 
Lecture ” was published only two years since. Also, I should like to call 
attention to the fact that every extract from the “ Chips,” given in the valuable 
paper which has been read before us this evening, was of an orthodox cha- 
racter in tendency and design, whereas every passage cited by Mr. Blencowe, 
which went against the first principles held by the members of this Institute, 
was taken from the “ Hibbert Lecture.” Therefore, I venture to ask the 
meeting not to look on the Dr. Max Muller of the present day as the same 
Max Muller who wrote the “Chips from a German Workshop.” If we 
take his facts, we may; find pleasure in, and take profit from, them, as 
there is much in them to encourage and satisfy the mind ; but let us repudiate 
his “ Hibbert Lecture.” I should like to quote one passage from the 
“ Chips,” which, to me, was most encouraging ; it refers to the state of men’s 
minds in India. Dr. Max Miiller, in his preface to that work, says: — 
“ A Hindoo, of Benares, in a lecture delivered before an English and native 
audience, said, ‘We really lament the ignorance of those who charge us 
with polytheism, in the teeth of thousands of texts in the Puranas declaring, 
in clear and unmistakable terms, that there is but one God, who manifests 
himself as Brahma, Vishnu, and Kudra (Siva), in his functions of creation, 
protection, and destruction,’ and he summed up his view in the words of 
their great poet, Kalidasa, as translated by Mr. Griffith 
‘ In these three persons 
The one true God was shown, 
Each first in place, 
Each last, — not one alone. 
Of Siva, Vishnu, Brahma, 
Each may be 
First, second, third, 
Among the blessed three ! ’ ” 
True, — Christianity is the one revealed religion ; but we gladly recognise 
in any other form of religion any traces of the original Kevelation. There- 
fore, we may well rejoice in these and similar lively traces of it ; because our 
missionaries, knowing them, will be able, amid a civilised people like the 
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