But it will have served its purpose sufficiently if it has helped to mark out more distinctly certain lines of the enquiry and to carry the investigation along these a little way; suggesting at the same time--what the facts themselves really suggest--counsels of sobriety and moderation.
What the end will be, it would be presumptuous to attempt to foretell.

It will probably be a long time before even these minor questions--much more the major questions into which they run up-- will be solved.

Whether they will ever be solved--all of them at least--in such a way as to compel entire assent is very doubtful.
Error and imperfection seem to be permanently, if we may hope diminishingly, a condition of human thought and action.

It does not appear to be the will of God that Truth should ever be so presented as to crush out all variety of opinion.

The conflict of opinions is like that of Hercules with the Hydra.