ABSTRACT
In author's discourse last Sunday endeavoured to point out the exact nature of Truth as now conceived. A statement is true which can be tested, and has stood the test. Quite different is it with the speculation concerning the existence of God. At every turn the man of science meets with a controlling externality, a condition irreversible, an order paramount. The uniformity of Nature is a mere expression of the feeling, and of its absolute permanent inherence in all cognisable phenomena. The belief in this uniformity has grown up with science quite independently of the mode in which the conception of gods arose from the observation of shadows. No man of science has the slightest doubt of the uniformity of Nature. The doubters and heretics are the priests and popes of different religions, the ignorant that deem themselves wise, not the relatively wise, who, as author shewed by the example of Newton, know themselves to be ignorant.
