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method, and the certainty, of its continuing to extend its 
empire. In minds of larger culture or of less jealous nar- 
rowness there is a complete cessation of the old antagonism ; 
a gradual approximation is being made between theology 
and science, and a more candid recognition of their mutual 
claims in regard to the grand religious and moral ideas 
which must ever regulate the movements of society.* 
Science, yet in its youth, tends constantly to free man 
from the chains in which he has been bound by supersti- 
tion, by making known to him the conditions of his exis- 
tence and enabling him ta direct his aim towards those 
objects which aid him in securing happiness ; relieving him 
from the unnecessary trammels which have been imposed 
by a dim perception only of what is good for him. Those 
who oppose or sneer at Science should recollect that the 
necessary consequence of their views being carried out 
would be the complete destruction of civilization and of its 
results. And in our day it is so certain that the progress 
of Science is so absolutely irresistible and so accelerated 
that it is merely a question with each community whether 
it shall help the stream or suffer itself to be borne by it. 
In the latter case it must perish or suffer itself to fall into 
a state of barbarism more or less complete. 
Those who wish to pursue these views farther will find in 
the works of Lewes and Herbert Spencer the latest exposi- 
tion of the principles which indicate the course of modem 
Science ; and I may refer to the address of the President 
(Mr. Grove) to the British Association at their Meeting last 
year for an example of the mode of treatment adopted in 
scientific questions by modern philosophy. It is to the pro- 
* Lewes, op. cit. pp. 43, 44. 
