Thus are we enabled to trace the boundaries of two distinct regions of thought, closely related, yet clearly separated. Science can not do the work of religion, nor can religion do the work of science. Each must fulfil its own part, and abide its proper tests. Science has its own place and its own task. Religion will simply wait upon science, leaving it to make its own discoveries, gladly accepting each one of them as it is established. The most reverend students of the Bible do not regard it as a revelation presenting a key to scientific research; though they do not hesitate to express their conviction that neither in express statement, nor in the spirit inculcated, does it place itself in antagonism to the search for truth, or the claims of any conclusions which can be legitimately described as philosophical or scientific. But its upholders press this consideration specially on scientific men, that the Bible has this title to be regarded as a book for all nations and for all ages, that it has proved itself intelligible to men in ages the least enlightened, and has also maintained a commanding influence in ages specially distinguished and favored by the advance of science and the widening power of literature. FOOTNOTES: [E] Science can not reach the beginning of things. [F] See _Disease Germs, their Nature and Origin_, by Beale. London, Churchill; Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blaikiston. [G] _Nature_ vol. xvi. p. 276. [H] Examples of the bacteria magnified 1,800, 3,000, and 5,000 times are given in Plate I. p. 16, of Beale's _Disease Germs_. [I] For Dr. Bastian's experiments see _Times_, April 13, 1870; and _Nature_, June and July, 1870. [J] Contribution to Royal Society of London. _Nature_ xv. p. 302, Feb. I, 1877. [K] _Ib._ [L] _Nature_ vol. xv. p. 302, and Appendix II. [M] _Nature_ vol. xvi. p. 127. [N] _Recent Advances in Physical Science_, p. 24. [O] _Preface_ x. [P] _Preface_ x. [Q] _History of the Conflict between Religion and Science_, by J. W. Draper, M.D., LL.D., Professor in the University of New York, 12 ed., p. 152. [R] _History of the Conflict between Religion and Science_, p. 163. [S] _Ib_. p. 165. [T] _Ib_. p. 167. [U] Genesis i. 2, 9. [V] רָקׅיַע, Raqia, from רָקַע, to spread out. [W] I Samuel ii. 8. [X] Job xi. 6. [Y] Job xxvi. 10, 11. [Z] _Conflict between Religion and Science_, p. 172. [AA] James iv. 14. LECTURE III. INORGANIC ELEMENTS IN THE UNIVERSE.