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

MAN'S PLACE IN THE WORLD. 245i~nplied antagonism to science. But the scientificillconsistency of this is easily shown.That science must extend its iiivestigatioiisto human organism, admits of no doubt; thatby rneans of this investigation all the phenomenaof human life will be traced to organism,is the very thing to be proved, anduntil established on clear and full evidenceis not to be regarded otherwise than problematic.If we are in this matter to be influencedby regard to the slow and difficultprocedure in cases of much greater simplicity,we shall be guarded in the utterance ofexpectations; if we make account of the enormousdifficulties to be encountered in arrangingthe facts to be explained, we shall be stillmore guarded; and if we remember that thepractical demands of life must all be met dayby day without waiting for science as an aid,it will not appear strange that the non-scientificthinker regards the whole scientific investigationas wide of the sphere in whichquestions of self-government are settled, eventhough this view seems to affirm, withoutknowledge of both sides, that there is asphere belonging to human life into whichscience can- not enter.