The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

LECTURE VI.HIGHER ORGANISMS.-RESEMBLANCES0ONTRASTS.-BRAIN STRUCTURE.ANDTHE stage of investigation now reachedrequires us to consider recent advancesin our knowledge of more complicated organisms.This leads into the line of observationdisclosing steadily advancing complexity ofstructure, and brings us into contact with theclaim that man be included within the areaof scientific inquiry, and regarded as a morefully organized life to which lower orders arenot only pointing, but actually tending.As to this last claim, about which moremust be said as we approach the close ofthese investigations, it may be remarked byway of preliminary, that as man belongs tonature, all the characteristics of his life mustcome within the area of scientific inquiry, andindeed the test of any theory of existencewhich may be offered, will be found in the