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THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE.

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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,
Quae nunc abibis in loca,-
Pallidula, rigida, nudula

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;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

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
not seen are eternal.

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.

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[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
the following paragraph, which has appeared

in
every edition :-'We are in hopes that when
this region of thought comes to be further exa-
mined, it may lead to some common ground
on which followers of science on the one hand,
and of revealed religion on the other, may meet
together and recognise each other's claims with-
out any sacrifice of the spirit of independence,
or any diminution of self-respect. Entertain-
ing these views, we shall welcome with sincere
pleasure any remarks or criticism on these
speculations of ours, whether by the leaders
of scientific thought, or by those of religious
inquiry.'

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