To say that God by existing always and everywhere _constitutes duration and space_, appears to be a form of expression better avoided. Besides that it approaches too near to the opinion, which the writer rejects, that He _is_ duration and space, it assumes a knowledge of the nature of the Divine existence, beyond our means of knowing, and therefore rashly. It appears to be safer, and more in conformity with what we really know, to say, not that the existence of God constitutes time and space; but that God has constituted _man_, so that _he_ can apprehend the works of creation, only as existing in time and space. That God has constituted time and space as conditions of man's knowledge of the creation, is certain: that God has constituted time and space as results of his own existence in any other way, _we_ cannot know. [3] "For doubt not that in other worlds above There must be other offices of love, That other tasks and ministries there are, Since it is promised that His servants, there, Shall serve Him still."--TRENCH. [4] For instance, we may assume that in two or three hundred years, by the improvement of telescopes, or by other means, it may be ascertained that the other planets of the Solar System are not inhabited, and that the other Stars are not the centres of regular systems. CHAPTER XIII. THE FUTURE. 1. We proceed then to a few reflections to which we cannot but feel ourselves invited by the views which we have already presented in these pages. What will be the future history of the human race, and what the future destination of each individual, most persons will, and most wisely, judge on far other grounds than the analogies which physical science can supply. Analogies derived from such a quarter can throw little light on those grave and lofty questions. Yet perhaps a few thoughts on this subject, even if they serve only to show how little the light thus attainable really is, may not be an unfit conclusion to what has been said; and the more so, if these analogies of science, so far as they have any specific tendency, tend to confirm some of the convictions, with regard to those weighty and solemn points,--the destiny of Man, and of Mankind,--which we derive from other and higher sources of knowledge.