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its revelations of doctrine. Next conies the class of scientific 
men, who maintain, side by side with their love of science, 
their belief in the divine origin of Christianity, and the 
authority of the Bible — men as devoted to the pursuit of 
knowledge and as eminent in the ranks of investigators, as 
diligent, as laborious, as able, as any which the annals of 
science can boast. But beyond these comes a third class, 
who have no claim to be men of science in the ordinary sense 
of the word; who are interested in it just as they are 
interested in every other branch of human knowledge ; who 
carefully watch its results, but who in their special sphere 
are moralists, not philosophers, — theologians, and not men of 
science. In the first class we have science without religion, 
in the second we have religion and science combined, and 
in the third we have religion without science. In each class 
there will be considerable varieties of light and shade. In 
the first there may be wide differences as to the degree of 
scepticism to which men have been led, and to the intensity 
of it, from positive infidelity up to negative indifference. In 
the second there will be found no entire accordance as to the 
relation between the Bible and science, or as to the mode of 
which their apparent and superficial contradiction may be 
necessitated. In the third the feelings with which physical 
investigation are regarded may vary, and the degree of in- 
telligent conviction with which science is distinguished from 
some men of science, may admit of indefinite shades. But 
still the general division holds good, and the lines of dis- 
tinction are sufficiently clear for my purpose, whether the 
man of science who is not religious, and the men of religion 
who are not scientific, and the class which stands beside, of 
men who are both scientific and religious. It must also be 
remembered that the two last may very often coincide ; and 
the list of names belonging to the Victoria Institute presents 
eminent examples of the coincidence ; the theologian and the 
man of science may be one and the same : but for my present 
purpose it will be well to consider them as distinct. 
My object is to adjust if I can the relation of these three 
classes towards each other and reconcile their claims. At 
present, when the theologian ventures to express an opinion 
on a point of science, or to denounce the scepticism of men 
of science, he is regarded as an interloper into a sphere 
where he has no right to enter, as a fanatic who feels, not 
thinks, and as arrogantly pronouncing on matters on which 
he has no competence to form an opinion. No doubt 
equally strong sentiments are expressed on the other side, 
on the part of the theologian toward the scientific inquirer, 
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