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 open for a higher enlightenment. The difference between a false reasoner and a true reasoner is that in the former the senses are above and rule the reason. In the latter intelligence is above and rules the reason.

Unaided by revelation it can but be concluded that all our sciences, "all our art, Plato, Shakespeare, Newton and Raphael, are potential in the fires of the sun." Revelation rescues us not only from ancient sun-worship, but also from this equally dangerous sun-worship of modern times. To enlightened reason the doctrine that the sun will burn out and the earth freeze, is as pitiable a faith as the most fanciful superstition of the savage. That man's career is ended by death is as impossible as the creation of the earth by itself. That material force could evolve the universe by natural selection is more ludicrous than the healing power of fetiches.