rs, who profess to see no evidences of a
designing intelligence in all the harmonies of nature, and yet profess to
see the far off man behind the old stone ax. What wonderful intelligence
they have! There is no want of intelligence; it is want of something else,
which Christianity requires. I think so much of your common sense that I
will leave you to say what that is. Socrates said: "When I was young it
was surprising how earnestly I desired that species of science which they
call physical, for it appeared to me pre-eminently excellent in bringing
us to know the causes of each, through what each is produced and
destroyed. But happening to hear some one read in a book, that it is
intelligence which is the parent of order and cause of all things, I
considered that, if it were so, the ordering intelligence placed each
thing where it was best."

Is mind a development upward from the instinct of the brute creation, or
is it an offspring from God? Man's reasoning intelligence separates him
from the brute by a chasm that no man can carry the reasoning powers of
mind across. _All on that side is brutish._ The science of the Bible,
dealing with intelligence as its subject, is the highest order of science
known to man. To limit the term science to physical phenomena is
unjustifiable, unless matter is the only substance in the universe, and
unless it be true, also, that some things resulting from matter lie
outside of science; for if matter is the one, and only, substance, and if
science deals with all there is, or may be, connected with that substance,
then, according to materialists themselves, its province is to deal with
life, mind and religion. But matter is not the only substance, unless a
thing can be, exist, and not be at the same time; for if life is a
property of matter inertia is not, and if mind is a property of matter it
must be with all matter everywhere, or the thing is and is not at one and
the same time.

The mind, in all its faculties, lies outside of the domain of the physical
sciences. Each man gets his knowledge of his own mental and moral
self-hood, not through the senses, but by his consciousness. So there is a
mental science that looks inward, and a physical science that looks
outward. Break down consciousness and philosophy is ruined. But some
ignoramus is ready to say: What care I for philosophy? Poor fellow! He
does not know what philosophy is; his ignorance is his trouble. Philosophy
simply tells us _