In tracing these analogies, I do not desire to imply that natural science can itself teach us religion, or that it is to afford the test of what is true in spiritual things. I have merely wished to direct attention to obvious analogies between things natural and things spiritual, which show that there is no such antagonism between science and revelation as many suppose, and that, in grand essential laws and principles, it may be true that earth is
"But the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to the other like more than on earth is thought."
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Epistle to Hebrews, xi. 3.
[2] Those who wish to understand the real bearings of palæontology on evolution should study Barrande's Memoirs on the Silurian Trilobites, Cephalopods, and Brachiopods.
[3] Beckett, Origin of the Laws of Nature.
[4] Refutation of Darwinism, Philadelphia, 1880.
[5] It was scarcely necessary to refer to this childish objection unless the individual skeleton of Adam had been in question.
[6] Rather, "vertebral arches."