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He had intellect to comprehend his Lightest duty distinctly, and force of character to do it; which of os dare ask a ’higher! summary of his life than that? For such a man there can he no fear in facing the great unknown, 1 his life Inis been one long experience of the substantial justice of the laws by which this world is governed, and he will camly trust to them still as he lays his head down for his long sleep.
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Whether astronomy and geology can or cannot be made to agree with tho statements as to the ’matters of fact laid down in Genesis —whether the Gospels are historically true or not—are matters of comparatively small moment in the face of the impassable gulf between the anthropomorphism (however refined) of theology and the passionless impersonality of the unknown and the unknowable which science shows everywhere underlying the thin veil of phenomena.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 1
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156APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 1
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