An idea, however, has arisen in some minds, that the pursuit of science has a tendency to make men sceptical in Religion. This we believe to be not only a demonstrable, but a dangerous error—demonstrable, as remarkably opposed to the evidences of fact and observation; and dangerous, as withdrawing the minds of many from the study of science, who would be perhaps especially fitted to estimate its advantages and enjoy its pleasures. History, who from her ample store of testimony has so often repealed injustice and defeated error, is no where more conclusive than on the question before us. The study of Nature not only has no tendency to induce a state of mind unfavorable to the reception of the truths of Religion, but just the contrary; for the proofs of a humble and sincere reliance on the promises of the one, have been infinitely most striking in those who have proved themselves the most successful cultivators of the other. The philosopher, regarding the universe as the dwelling of the Supreme, sees in the laws of nature, and in the powers through which he is permitted in a degree to interpret them, only another revelation—a Divine recognition of his high relations and destiny; and grasps in one comprehensive idea the Word and the Works, as an integral communication—one extended privilege to Man. He does not indeed confound the evidences on which philosophical and religious truths respectively repose. He knows that they rest on different _kinds_ of testimony, which he neither strives to identify, nor misapply. He no more expects to deduce the generalizations of science from the Scriptures, than he does the commands of the Deity from the facts of the natural world. Philosophy and Religion, however, are constantly impressing similar facts. In science, we learn—and no doubt the deepest learn it best—that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy." Religion tells us there are many things "past man's understanding." Religion and science teach us alike that any inquiry into the positive and ultimate nature of anything which exists, is entirely beyond our faculties; and respectively impress on us the conviction, that our proper business is to search out the phenomena and laws of the one, and to obey the Commandments of the other.