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Of all antagonisms of belief, the oldest, the widest, the most profound and the most important, is that between Religion and Science. It commenced when the recognition of the simplest uniformities in surrounding things, set a limit to the once universal superstition.

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What knowledge is of most worth? — the uniform reply is — Science. This is the verdict on all counts.

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By accumulated experiences the man of science acquires a thorough belief in the unchanging relations of phenomena - in the invariable connection of cause and consequence - in the necessity of good or evil results.

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Thus to the question with which we set out - What knowledge is of most worth? - the uniform reply is - Science.

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The conceptions which developing science gives of the grandeur of creation, as well as the constancy and irresistibleness of its Omnipresent Cause, make all feel the comparative littleness of human power...

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He who contemplates the Universe from the religious point of view, must learn to see that this which we call Science is one constituent of the great whole; and as such ought to be regarded with a sentiment like that which the remainder excites.

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What is Science? To see the absurdity of the prejudice against it, we need only remark that Science is simply a higher development of common knowledge; and that if Science is repudiated, all knowledge must be repudiated along with it.

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Science is necessary not only for the most successful production, but also for the full appreciation of the fine arts.

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The genuine man of science, we say, can truly know how utterly beyond, not only human knowledge, but human conception, is the Universal Power of which Nature, and Life, and Thought are manifestations. Education

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Be there be or be there not any other revelation, we have a veritable revelation in Science - a continuous disclosure, through the intelligence with which we are endowed, of the established order of the Universe.

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We conclude, then, that for discipline, as well as for guidance, science is of chiefest value. In all its effects, learning the meanings of things, is better than learning the meanings of words. Whether for intellectual, moral, or religious training, the study of surrounding phenomena is immensely superior to the study of grammars and lexicons.

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So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

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Devotion to science is a tacit worship — a tacit recognition of worth in the things one studies; and by implication in their cause. It is not a mere lip-homage, but a homage expressed in actions — not a mere professed respect, but a respect proved by the sacrifice of time, thought, and labour.

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Science is organized knowledge; and before knowledge can be organized, some of it must first be possessed. Every study, therefore, should have a purely experimental introduction; and only after an ample fund of observations has been accumulated, should reasoning begin.

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But for science we should be still worshipping fetishes; or, with hecatombs of victims, propitiating diabolical deities.

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As, to the religious, it will seem absurd to set forth any justification for Religion; so, to the scientific, will it seem absurd to defend Science.

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It is not true that the facts of science are unpoetical; or that the cultivation of science is necessarily unfriendly to the exercise of imagination or the love of the beautiful. On the contrary science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific all is a blank.

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From generation to generation Science has been proving uniformities of relation among phenomena which were before thought either fortuitous or supernatural in their origin - has been showing an established order and a constant causation where ignorance had assumed irregularity and arbitrariness.

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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas....

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Every science begins by accumulating observations, and presently generalizes these empirically; but only when it reaches the stage at which its empirical generalizations are included in a rational generalization does it become developed science.

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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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