confounded with
that of the relations between the science of nature and the documents of
revelation. Whether nature can be explained without God is one question.
Whether geology is in accordance with the language of the book of
Genesis is another question, as regards both its nature and its
importance. This latter subject does not come within the scope of these
lectures. I will merely call attention to the fact, that if nature and
the sacred text are fixed elements, this is not the case with the
interpretations of theologians, and the results of geology. It is
difficult to pronounce upon the exact relation of two quantities more or
less indeterminate.

[104] In the writings of M. de Rougemont, if I am not mistaken.

[105] _Systema naturae._

[106] Ps. civ. 24.

[107] _Biographie universelle._

[108] _A. P. de Candolle_, by A. de la Rive, pp. 12 and 13.

[109] M. Vaucher's principal title to scientific distinction is his
_Histoire des conferves d'eau douce_, Geneve, an XI (1803), 4 deg..

[110] _Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences_ of 20 April, 1863,
page 738.

[111] Exeter Hall Lectures--_The Power of God in His Animal Creation_,
pamphlet in 12mo. This remarkable lecture contains a twofold
protest--against the blindness of those savants who fail to recognize
the presence of God in nature; and against the pretensions of those
theologians who attack the certain results of the study of nature,
relying upon texts more or less accurately interpreted.

[112] _Chemistry applied to Agriculture and to Physiology_ (in German).
Seventh edition. Introd. page 69.

[113] Since these words were spoken, M. de la Rive has been named an
associated member of the Institute of France (Academy of Sciences), and
thus elevated to the first of scientific dignities. It might be shown, I
believe, that the greater number of the eight associates of the Academy
of Sciences to be found in the world, make profession of their faith in
God the Creator, the Almighty and Holy One. The silence which others may
have preserved on the subject would, moreover, be no authority for
concluding that they do not share in beliefs and sentiments which they
have not had the occasion perhaps of publicly expressing.

[114] _On the Origin of Species_, page 81. Fifth edition.

[115] _On the Origin of Species_. The text is--"the _necessary_ series
of facts;" but it would be to do the writer wrong to impute to him the
idea that observation reveals to us