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him._
The voice within. The objection of the alleged relativity of knowledge.
Absolute knowledge of our own personal identity. Failure to show this
to be relative; in particular by Mr. Herbert Spencer. The Moral Law.
The command to live according to that Law; Duty. The command to

believe in the supremacy of that Law; the lower Faith. The Last
Judgment. The hope of Immortality. The personification of the Moral
Law in Almighty God; the higher Faith. The spiritual faculty the
recipient of Revelation, if any be made. The contrast between Religion
and Science.
LECTURE III.
APPARENT CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
ON FREE-WILL.
Genesis i. 27.
_So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created
He him._
Contradiction of Free-Will to doctrine of Uniformity. Butler's
examination of the question. Hume's solution. Kant's solution.
Determinism. The real result of examination of the facts. Interference
of the will always possible, but comparatively rare. The need of a fixed
nature for our self-discipline, and so for our spiritual life.
LECTURE IV.
APPARENT CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE
DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION.
Romans i. 20.
_For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His
eternal power and Godhead._
Foundation of the doctrine of Evolution. Great development in recent
times. Objection felt by many religious men. Alleged to destroy
argument from design. Paley's argument examined. Doctrine of
Evolution adds force to the argument, and removes objections to it.
Argument from progress; from beauty; from unity. The conflict not

real.
LECTURE V.
REVELATION THE MEANS OF DEVELOPING AND
COMPLETING SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE.
Hebrews i. 1.
_God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past to
the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by His
Son._
The evolution of Knowledge. Does not affect the truth of Science. Nor
of Religion. Special characteristic of evolution of Religious Knowledge,
that it is due to Revelation. All higher Religions have claimed to be
Revelations. The evolution of Religious Knowledge in the Old
Testament; yet the Old Testament a Revelation. Still more the New
Testament. The miraculous element in Revelation. Its place and need.
Harmony of this mode of evolution with the teaching of the Spiritual
Faculty.
LECTURE VI.
APPARENT COLLISION BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE
DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION.
Psalm c. 3.
_Know ye that the Lord He is God: it is He that hath made us, and not
we ourselves._
Evolution examined. The formation of the habitable world. The
formation of the creatures which inhabit it. Transmission of
characteristics. Variations perpetually introduced. Natural selection. On
the other side, life not yet accounted for by Evolution. Cause of
variations not yet examined. Moral Law incapable of being evolved.
Account given in Genesis not at variance with doctrine of Evolution.

Evolution of man not inconsistent with dignity of humanity.
LECTURE VII.
APPARENT COLLISION OF SCIENCE WITH THE CLAIM TO
SUPERNATURAL POWER.
St. John xiv. 11.
_Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else
believe Me for the very works' sake._
The claim to work miracles parallel to the freedom of the will. The
miracles of Revelation need not be miracles of Science. Our Lord's
Resurrection, and His miracles of healing, possibly not miraculous in
the scientific sense. Different aspect of miracles now and at the time
when the Revelation was given. Miracles attested by the Apostles, by
our Lord's character, by our Lord's power. Nature of evidence required
to prove miracles; not such as to put physical above spiritual evidence;
not such as to be unsuited to their own day. Impossibility of
demonstrating universal uniformity. Revelation no obstacle to the
progress of Science.
LECTURE VIII.
THE CONCLUSION OF THE ARGUMENT.
1 Corinthians xii. 3.
_No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost._
Uniformity of nature not demonstrated, but established, except in two
cases; the interference of human will and of Divine Will. The exception
no bar to the progress of Science. Unity to be found not in the physical
world, but in the physical and moral combined. The Moral Law rests on
itself. Our recognition of it on our own character and choice. But we
expect it to show its marks in the physical world: and these are the
purpose visible in Creation, the effects produced by Revelation.

Nevertheless a demand for more physical evidence; but the physical
cannot be allowed to overshadow the spiritual. Dangers to believers
from leaning this way: superstition; blindness; stagnation. The
guarantee for spiritual perceptiveness: to take Jesus as the Lord of the
conscience, the heart, the will.

LECTURE I.
THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF.
The subject introduced: Scientific belief. Mathematics and Metaphysics
excluded. The Postulate of