Calvinism a life-system - pagina 151

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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Even the minutest microscopic, the telescopic

investigation

strengthened

\

farthest

147

reaching

nothing but perception with

is

This

eyes.

.

transformed into science,

is

when you discover in the specific phenomena, perceived by empiricism, a universal laiv, and thereby reach the thought, which governs the whole constellation of phen-

omena.

In

but even

The

wise the special

this

in

sciences

originate;

them the human mind cannot

acquiesce.

subject-matter

of the

several

must be grouped under one head and brought under the sway of one principle by means of theory or hypothesis, and

finally Systematics, as the

from

forth

her

tent

to

one organic whole.

into

queen of sciences, comes

weave It

is

sciences

all

the different results

true, I

know, that Dubois

Raymond's winged word Ignorabinius has been used by many, to make it seem impossible that our thirst for science in the highest sense will ever be

quenched,

and that Agnosticism, drawing a curtain across the background and over the abysses of hfe, is satisfied with a study of the

but some

.

its

revenge on

about the

vidi^

vici,

speed,

.

this spiritual

the

vandalism.

The

question

and destiny of every-

cannot be suppressed; and the veni, wherewith the theory of evolution with full exists,

occupied the ground

Word

ralists, is o'f

phenomena of the several sciences the human mind began to take

ago,

origin, interconnection

thing that

to

ti^me

in all

the

of God, and especially

a convincing proof,

circles,

inimical

among our how much we need

natuunity

view.

How, now, can we prove that love for science in that higher sence, which aims at unity in our cognizance of

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