Calvinism - pagina 151

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

Even

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minutest microscopic, the farthest reaching

the

investigation

telescopic

strengthened

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 which governs the whole constellation of phen-

thoiight^

omena.

In

even

but

The

sciences

originate;

them the human mind cannot

acquiesce.

sciences

must be

wise the special

this

in

subject matter

several

of the

grouped under one head and brought under the sway

means of theory or hypothesis, Systematics, as the queen of sciences, comes

of one principle by

and

finally

from her tent to weave

forth

one organic whole.

into

all

the different results

know, that Dubois

It is true, I

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

and that Agnosticism,

drawing a

be quenched,

curtain

background and over the abysses of

life,

across the is

satisfied

with a study of the phenomena of the several sciences

some time

but its

revenge on

about the

vici^

speed, to

this

the

origin, interconnection

thing that vidi^

human mind began to take The question spiritual vandalism.

ago,

exists,

cannot be suppressed; and the veni,

wherewith the theory of evolution with

occupied the ground

the

Word

ralists, is

and destiny of every-

in all

the

inimical

among our how much we need

of God, and especially

a convincing proof,

circles,

full

natuunity

of view.

How, now, can we prove

that love for science in that

liigher sence, which aims at unity in our cognizance of

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