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mind.” Mr. Warington’s argument as to a dual analogy has been amply 
and most fittingly answered by the Chairman, to whom I feel deeply indebted 
for his able reply to the various criticisms here reviewed. It can surely never 
be pretended that because a dual analogy is observable, therefore a triple 
analogy is weakened. I should feel disposed to uphold the exact contrary. 
One of Mr. Warington’s dual analogies, as against a triple analogy, I fail to 
appreciate. Mr. Warington points to the animal and vegetable kingdoms 
why omit the mineral ? For one thing I feel that I owe a debt to Mr. 
Warington, which I beg to acknowledge : that his entire criticism has 
forcibly brought to light, and most strikingly exhibited, the fundamental 
and constant changes which science, in almost all its branches, is undergoing 
in our day, and its consequent lack of at least one element, stability, so 
essential to any system which aims either at guiding the human intellect or 
recovering it from supposed errors. It has thus indirectly contributed largely 
to my main object — the true estimate and due location of theology as a 
science. I gladly quote and most heartily adopt the sentiment of our 
Chairman : — “ I believe, most fully that you can, even from the Bible itself, 
and ivithout going to scholastic theology , take your stand upon this, that there 
is a scientific theology in the Word of God ” — and I venture a further assertion. 
Dr. Irons, in his criticism, drew a contrast between the scholastic theology 
and what he termed “ popular religion.” Now, by the Doctor’s own show- 
ing, the schoolmen did not begin to elaborate a scientific theology for seven 
hundred years. I claim for that in Scripture a priority to just that extent. 
If asked where I find it, I adopt the response to the taunt, “ Where 
was Protestantism before the Keformation ? ” and reply, — In the Bible. 
Should my paper be in any measure the means of drawing attention to the 
subject of which it treats, it will not have wholly failed of its object. And 
as our discussions I trust have for their purpose to elicit truth, not merely 
to exhibit critical acumen, I am quite content that I was obliged, by a 
temporary loss of voice, to allow judgment to go by default when the paper 
was read ; and acknowledge with thanks the courtesy of the Council in 
allowing me to offer these remarks in writing. 
