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the reason upon the heart. Love is the sunbeam that woos the 
highest music from mams emotional nature, that melts the 
iceberg in the sea of frozen feeling, that turns all the passions 
of the soul into a power resembling the gulf-stream of ocean, 
that melts the snows of selfishness into rivers that flow as from 
Alpine heights to water and refresh the plains. 
11 Now, since the circle which the magic wand of science 
describes cannot inclose all the interests of man,* it might 
occur to scientists to ask if it be not the case that religion may 
have to do with some of them, and even with the highest o 
them. Moral law, for example, viewed as means to ends, is 
adapted to man’s moral nature, just as physical law is adapted 
to his physical nature. But morals and religion are closely 
allied. When Biichner says that “the many religions can 
stand in no necessary connection with morals,” he glances on y 
at the surface of things. It is not true as he would dog- 
matically assert, that “ morals and religion have originally and 
in principle nothing to do with each other, and have probably 
been commingled only in the course of history, and for reasons 
of external expediency.” The tendency to degrade religion by- 
attempting to exalt morality is somewhat strong among a 
certain class of thinkers in these times. Religion is confounded 
with some particular form of thought, or act of worship, and 
the defect, or supposed defect, is seized as an argument for 
separating morality and religion. The fault is m the minds 
that confound religion with theology. It may not be a duty to 
accept a given form of theology, but it must always be a duty 
to be religious; and if it be a duty, it must be moral. 
Religion is voluntary obedience to God, and surely that is a 
moral thing. The axe of Biichner cannot thus cleave asunder 
what the infinite reason has made one, and what the finite reason 
can apprehend to be so. Well, regulative ideas are required in 
moral life, just as they are in scientific life, and reason is seen as 
the source of those ideas. Reclaiming truth, as required by fallen 
moral beings, demands reason, justas any new discovery m science 
needs it for scientific purposes. Reason apprehends and gives 
forth the law that should regulate the moral volitions of men, just 
as it guides the scientist as he works in the laboratory orelsewlieie. 
While, then, an exclusive attention to science may have a ten- 
dency to overlook many facts and phenomena which concern men, 
reason will not so allow herself to be blinded. There is, for ex- 
ample, no deeper fact in human consciousness than the tact ot 
moral failure, and of moral weakness as the result of that failure, 
and of moral want as the effect of that weakness. Now reason 
takes notice of all this in the religious sphere, and will not allow 
any scientific bias to turn us aside from its importance. It com- 
