μὴ σκοπούντων ἡμῶν τὰ βλεπόμενα, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα, πρόσκαιρα τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα, αιώνια. Πρὸς Κορινθίους, Β ́. δ'. Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, HADRIAN. 'God hath endowed us with different faculties, suitable and proportional to the different objects that engage them. We discover sensible things by our senses, rational things by our reason, things intellectual by understanding; but divine and celestial things he has reserved for the exercise of our faith, which is a kind of divine and superior sense in the soul. Our reason and understanding may at some times snatch a glimpse, but cannot take a steady and adequate prospect of things so far above their reach and sphere. Thus, by the help of natural reason, I may know there is a God, the first cause and original of all things; but his essence, attributes, and will, are hid within the veil of inaccessible light, and cannot be discerned by us but through faith in his divine revelation. He that walks without this light, walks in darkness, though he may strike out some faint and glimmering sparkles of his own. And he that, out of the gross and wooden dictates of his natural reason, carves out a religion to himself, is but a more refined idolater than those who worship stocks and stones, hammering an idol out of his fancy, and adoring the works of his own imagination. For this reason God is nowhere said to be jealous, but upon the account of his worship.'-Pilgrim's Progress, Part III. 'To die,—to sleep ; To sleep! perchance to dream ;-ay, there's the rub; When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.'-SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, Act iii. Scene 1. & THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE OR PHYSICAL SPECULATIONS ON A FUTURE STATE BY B. STEWART AND P. G. TAIT the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1889. [All Rights reserved.] Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.—Amen. First edition (Demy 8vo), April 1875. Reprinted June 1875, October 1875. New Edition (Crown 8vo), April_1876. Reprinted June 1876, October 1876, January 1878, January 1879, December 1879, May 1881, December 1882, January 1884, January 1885, August 1886, January 1889. [The following was prefixed to our Sixth Edition. Though many changes, some of importance, have since been made in the text, we do not think it necessary to call attention to them here.] OUR readers will find near the end of our work in 1039241 |