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misunderstood theology, pássing current as religion. I may say that I am out not to condemn, but to commend. The achievements of modern science within the sphere of physics, chemistry and allied sciences, are remarkably good; they have broken through the array of centuries-old superstitions, and lightened the human burdens in many ways. But there their work ends. Science has yet to find out what the ancients really believed and taught in regard to their religion. When this is ascertained it must then see whether it is really true or not. Then alone will the opinion of modern science be entitled to respect.
It may be pointed out while I am still on the subject, that some of the inferences whereby science has arrived at the conclusion that there is no soul, are too wonderful for words. For instance, when science thinks that the history of evolution is preserved in the germ plasm and repeated in the case of every organism, it may, be enquired, whether this germ plasm is eternal which preserves the history of what took place millions of years ago, and of all the stages which themselves must have taken millions and millions of years from ameba to man? If not eternal, may me be told, in which part of matter is the history preserved, and who has preserved it, and how? Nature could not preserve anything without the instrumentality of a preserving agent. Is it not more rational to hold that the organism 'is' manufactured by the action of the soul's own vibrations impinging on the matter with which it is surrounded in the womb, and that the various forms are the outcome of only one form-making agency, namely, the soul as an embodied force, and that the stages which
