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

106 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.we take the violent and even passionate antipathyto any acknowledgment of the supernaturalwhich is found in the Essays ofClifford, or the profoundly reverential acknowledgmentof the Deity in the writingsand life of Faraday, science is to be creditedwith neither. And so in like manner, whenwe have violent denunciations of science professedlyin the name of religion, or intelligentappreciation of its high value from accreditedupholders of religious truth, religion itself isto be credited with neither the one nor theother. This is a matter which comes withinthe range of ordinary intelligence. It mayindeed belong to philosophy to formulate anddevelop the arguments in strict harmony withthe recognized laws of mind; but it .belongsequally to all men to estimate the generalsweep and range of acquired knowledge asto the structure and order of the universe, asbearing upon the more general conceptionsto be rationally entertained regarding its government.With this branch of the subject,ordinary thought may readily deal withoutentanglement in technicalities.There is ps we have seen a duality of existencein the inorganic structure of the world,