Note 206 — Chapter IV · CHRISTIANITY, CONSIDERED AS A SCHEME OR CONSTITUTION, IMPERFECTLY COMPREHENDED.

[“Providence hurries not himself to display to-day the consequence of the principle he yesterday announced. He will draw it out in the lapse of ages Even according to our reasoning logic is none the less sure, because it is slow.”—Guizot on Civilization, Lect. I.How impressively is this sentiment sustained by modern geology, and astronomy!]