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Sciene and the Bible

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Before entering upon our discussions with regard to the individuality of nature, we give an abstract of the views on this subject presented in the " Six Days of Creation," and the " "World-Problem," with some citations also from Plato, that the reader may better appreciate the point of the re­marks that follow.
According to the recent works just mentioned, Nature is a great individuality, so far independent of the Deity, that she may be said to go of herself, to require rest, to deteriorate and decay, to need reviving through the act of the Deity at in­tervals in her progress, in order to her recovery from her de-cayings ; and that to carry on her series of growths, she re­ceived \6yoi σπερματικοί or " immaterial entities " (explained to be not merely invisible force from the Creator, but actual " immaterial entities," put into nature) as germs of the ex­istences that were afterwards produced in nature as the womb.1 Moreover, as all that is finite errs, therefore nature
ι See our Article, No. II., Bib. Sac, July 1S56, pp. 651, 652. Vol. XIV. No. 55.                40
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