The relations between religion and science : eight lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1884 on the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton ... / by the Right Rev. Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter.

  • Temple, Frederick, 1821-1902.
Date:
1884
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    demand for completeness in Science can crush. All attempts at reconciling the mechanical firmness of an unbroken law of uniformity with the voice within that cannot be silenced telling us that we must answer for our action, have failed, and we know that they will for ever fail. If indeed it could be said that the progress of Science was really barred by this inability to make the induction complete, and to assert the unbroken uniformity of all nature ; if it could be said that any uncertainty was thus cast over scientific conclusions, or any false or misleading lights thus held up to draw in- quirers from the true path, it would undoubtedly become a duty to examine, and to examine anxiously, whether indeed it could be true that our faculties were thus hopelessly at variance with each other, the scientific faculty imposing on us one belief, and the spiritual faculty an- other, and the two practically irreconcileable. But there is no reason whatever for thinking this. Newton's investigations were unquestion- ably pursued, as all true scientific investigations must ever be pursued, in reliance on the truth