Obscurantism in Modern Science An Address Delivered Before the Heretics Socie
Obscurantism in Modern Science An Address Delivered Before the Heretics Socie
Edward Clodd
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And if we judge only from the history of these reptilian monsters we see in them a series of unsuccessful experiments ; perchance the " 'prentice hands " of the angelic auxiliaries resulting in the pro- duction of a mass of superfluous unfit to secure the existence of the fit. Pointing to them, Nature can only confess, with Beau Drummers valet when showing to a friend of his master's a heap of discarded ties, " These are our failures. " As for an "enduring spiritual existence, " to once more qu...ote Dr. Schiller : " The end and origin of the soul are alike shrouded in perplexities which religious dogma makes serious attempt to dispel Whence does the soul come? Does it exist before the body, is it derived from the souls or the bodies of its parents, or created ad hoc by the Deity ? Is Pre-existence, Tradu- cianism, or Creationism the orthodox doctrine? The first theory, although we shall see that it is the only one on which any rational eschatology can be, or has been, -based, is difficult, and has not figured largely in religious thought ; but the other two are alike impossible and offensive.
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