In a word, the whole universe is
but a temple, with God for its deity, and the redeemed _man_ for its
worshipper.
[Footnote 18: Distinguished among the Methodist clergy for eloquence and
learning; a native of Pennsylvania.]
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=_Noah Porter,[19] 1811-_=
From "The Science of Nature versus the Science of Man."
=_53._= SCIENCE MAGNIFIES GOD.
We contend at present only for the position that we cannot have a
science of nature which does not regard the spirit of man as a part of
nature. But is this all? Do man and nature exhaust the possibilities of
being? We cannot answer this question here. But we find suggestions from
the spectrum and the spectroscope which may be worth our heeding. The
materials with which we have to do in their most brilliant scientific
theories seem at first to overwhelm us with their vastness and
complexity. The hulks are so enormous, the forces are so mighty, the
laws are so wide-sweeping, and at times so pitiless, the distances are
so over-mastering, even the uses and beauties are so bewildering, that
we bow in mute and almost abject submission to the incomprehensible all;
of which we hesitate to affirm aught, except what has been manifest to
our observant senses and connected by our inseparable associations.
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