It [science] has largely dispersed that dread of nature, which is the offspring of ignorance, and the fruitful parent of superstition with its progeny of woes. It has taught man to look fearlessly into the face of nature, and see there a divine order and beauty, not the features of a ferocious monster, "red in tooth and claw."

Science and Religion, The Maritime Monthly, Volume II, November, 1873 (p. 479)