Quote #5

'The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.'

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  1. 'Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic con…
  2. 'When I look up at the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is that I really see there, I am constrained to say, 'There is no G…
  3. 'Under the old dispensation, before the advent of science, when this little world was all, and the sun, moon, and stars were merely fixture…
  4. 'Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. W…
  5. 'But we must learn it sooner or later. There surely comes a time when the mind perceives that this world is the work of God also and not of…
  6. 'We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.' (p.10)
  7. 'Goethe, as lately quoted by Matthew Arnold, said those who have science and art have religion; and added, let those who have not science a…
  8. 'Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship w…

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