22. We find no encouragement, then, for any attempt to obtain, from Science, by the light of the analogy of the past, any definite view of a future condition of the Creation. And that this is so, we cannot, for reasons which have been given, feel any surprise. Yet the reasonings which we have, in various parts of this Essay, pursued, will not have been without profit, even in their influence upon our religious thoughts, if they have left upon our minds these convictions:--That if the analogy of science proves anything, it proves that the Creator of man can make a Creator as far superior to Man, as Man, when most intellectual, moral, religious, and spiritual, is superior to the brutes:--and again, That Man's Intellect is of a divine, and therefore of an immortal nature. Those persons who can, on any basis of belief, combine these two convictions, so as to feel that they have a personal interest in both of them;--those who have such grounds as Religion, happily appealed to, can furnish, for hoping that their imperishable element may, hereafter, be clothed with a new and more glorious apparel by the hand of its Almighty Maker;--may be well content to acknowledge that Science and Philosophy could not give them this combined conviction, in any manner in which it could minister that consolation, and that trust in the Divine Power and Goodness, which human nature, in its present condition, requires. THE END. Transcriber's Notes. Spelling irregularities where there was no obviously preferred version were left as is. Variants include: "embedded" and "imbedded;" "a hypothesis" and "an hypothesis;" "inexhausted" and "unexhausted;" "volcanos" and "volcanoes." Changed "intelligencies" to "intelligences" on page xvi: "may be rational intelligences." Changed "familar" to "familiar" on page 43: "had been familiar." Changed "Chalmer's" to "Chalmers'" on page 67: "Chalmers' reasonings." Inserted missing period after "live in the sea" on page 78. Changed "disapear" to "disappear" on page 82: "at last they disappear." Changed "natturally" to "naturally" on page 84: "we may naturally ask." Changed "planets" to "plants" on page 91: "plants and animals." Changed "intelligenee" to "intelligence" on page 125: "intelligence, morality, religion." Changed "crystaline" to "crystalline" on page 126: "of crystalline powers." Changed "dissimiliar" to "dissimilar" on page 128: "perpetually dissimilar." Changed "words" to "worlds" on page 135: "plurality of worlds." Changed "insignificent" to "insignificant" on page 151: "insignificant and insensible." Changed "tales" to "tails" on page 170: "tails of comets." Changed "Chambers'" to "Chalmers'" in the footnote on page 175: "Chalmers' Astron. Disc." In the footnote on page 177, "the times of the warning" might be a typographic error for "the times of the waning," but was not changed. Changed "disaprove" to "disprove" on page 185: "prove or disprove."