Christianity Made Science Or a Lifes Thoughts On Religion And Morals
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Emile Burnouf {La Science des Religions, 1870) : "Ce n'est a la science, " says this writer, " d'examiner la valeur absolue des religions. " But is not this precisely what the peculiar province of religious science is, viz. To distinguish sharply I08 CHRISTIANITY MADE SCIENCE. and absolutely between the true and the false in religion ? That this is its great duty, the author himself acknowledges (p. 276) : "La theorie d'Agni est-elle vraie absolu- ment?" He, however, nowhere seems to feel himse...lf called upon to give an answer. Again, he remarks that the science of reli- gion " n'a rien d'aggressif. " Poor Religion ! if it is not to be aggressive, when everybody else and everything else is so. Is not all science aggressive? Is not the science of astronomy aggressive ? Where is now the Ptolemaic system? Nay, has not science made war upon religion — righteous war per- haps, but still war? What has become of the sun that in bygone days stood still on Gibeon, or of the creation of the world in six statute days?
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