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 THE DIVINE ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE AS INTERPRETED BY EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.

I. "Partly* through mathematical and partly through experimental research, physical science has of late years assumed a momentous position in the world. Both in a material and in an intellectual point of view it has produced, and it is destined to produce, immense changes — vast social ameliorations, and vast alterations in the popular conception of the origin, rule, and governance of natural things."

These immense changes, it is said by another writer, have begun to affect our religious ideas —

"An** inevitable revolution, of which we all recognize the beginnings and signs, but which has already spread, perhaps, farther than most of us think, is befalling the religion in which we have been brought up. In those countries where religion has been most loved, this revolu- * Fragments of Science, by J. Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S., p. 1 1 1.
 * Literature and Dogma, by Matthew Arnold, Preface.

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