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Show Professor Tyndall denies that he ignored tho existence of God in his recent address at Belfast. Ho says he dees not feel that tho doctrine of i material atheism is a satisfactory ! solution of the great mystery in' which wo dwell, and of which wej form a part. In short, he evidently wishes "it to bo understood that ho does not repudiate the idea ot God, but only certain current conceptions of God. He holds with Bacon that! "it were better to have no opinion of, God at all than, such an opinion as ia j unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief; un-belief; the other is contumely." |