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

24 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.line of discovcry. Next came the acknowledgmentthat even with all the analogies andhomologies of structure, seen and unseen,there was a vast chasm between the ape andman. Forthwith, the stimulus to comic talentbegan to die away; and it must be confessedthat the department of anthropologyhas not been greatly advanced from this newregion of observation.These examples may suffice to impress atonce upon theologians and scientists,-andupon the public mind also,-the obvious, buteasily forgotten lesson, that there is need fordeliberation before we can clearly decide theexact significance of new scientific discoveries.Neither t,he spirit of religion, nor the scientificspirit, disposes inquirers to make haste.There is a basis of certainty, sufficientlybroad and deep to deliver the mind fromconcern lest intellectual confusion should arisefrom continued observation and thought.Enthusiasm, acuteness, patience, and alsoboldness of speculation, are needed in orderto widen the range of our knowledge of themysteries of existence; but caution is as certainlya necessary feature in the gathering ofappliances which must lie at the command