The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

INORGANIC ELEMENTS IN THE UNIVERSE.IN view of the wide range of materials atcommand, and the limits of the presentinquiry, there is need for some definitemethod of selection, which may secure acareful, though necessarily very general surveyof the whole ground. That which seemsto give most promise of meeting these requirementsis the contemplation in order ofthe great leading conceptions which have receivedprominence within recent years in consequenceof continued research under strictlyscientific methods. These may be said to constitutethe scientific revolution of the nineteenthcentury, giving occasion for reconstructingthe popular conceptions of theuniverse. They claim to mark the trulyscientific period, inaugurated by commandof instruments never before within reach,allowing an immense advance in the modesof research, and placing the secrets of na-