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

RELATIONS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION.LECTURE I.CONDITIONS OF THE INQUIRY.AMONG the many advantages enjoyed bythe present generation, one of the mostconspicuous is that arising from the large advancemade in physical science. The highvalue of this is apparent from whatever standpointit is regarded. The vastly wider rangeof knowledge, the increase of appliances forinquiry, the greater facilities for work of allkinds, the freer intercommunion of all thedivisions of our race, and the greater altitudefrom which the whole realm of existence canbe contemplated; all these involve an immensegain for the present century.With these advantages, however, therecomes the difficulty of using them aright, adifficulty which we may expect to be greaterwhen we are dealing with wider and moregeneral aspects of existence, than when we