Reconciliation of science and religion / by Alexander Winchell.

  • Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891.
Date:
1877
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    vin. THE CONFLICTS OF FAITH. The historical controversy, 207-208.—The human powers in action, 208. —The religious sentiment, 208.—^Authority of both classes of intuitions, 209.—Their different spheres, 210.—Intellect progressive, religion con- servative, 212.—Faith clings fondly to its objects, 212.—Intellect pro- nounces some of them unreal, 212.—Action and reaction of these forces, 212.—Exemplifications strew the pathway of history, 213.—Protagoras, Aristarchus, Socrates, Christ, 213-214. — The conflict in reality between old science and new, 215.—Periodicity in the interactions, 215.—The con- flict in the scholastic ages, 216.—Slavery of intellect, 216.—Two orders of truth supposed, 217.—Rebellion of Luther, 217.—The emergence of intel- lectual freedom gradual, 218.—Champions of free thought, 218.—The other swing of the pendulum, 218.—Champions of doubt, 218.—Readjust- ment after the French Revolution, 218-219. — Later strides of intellect, 219.—Doting faith still inclines to hug her idols, 220.—And science is again shaming her for it, 220.—Resume, 221.—Another renaissance of faith, 221.—The prospect of reconciliation, 221-222.—The Biblical record of creation, 222.—The antiquity of the human race, 223.—Its unity, 223- 224.—The origin of species, 224.—The origin of life, 224-225.—Mental pliysiology, 225-226.—Rights of the religious nature, 227.—Religion not a human enactment, 227.—Religion in schools, 227-228.—The reconcilia- tion to be sought, 229.—An incident from Casalis, 229-230. IX. THOUGHTS ON CAUSALITY. Utterances of Tyndall, Huxley, and Haeckel, 231.—Synopsis of Profess- or Tyndall's Belfast address, 232.—His materialism not atheistic, nor pantheistic, nor antispiritualistic, 237.—He recognizes the rights of the religious nature, 237.—Phenomena and realities, 240.—Science and phi- losophy defined, 240.—Chance considered as the explanation of an event, 242.—The Lucretian atomic hypothesis, 243.—Increased knowledge dis- closes mere effect in supposed cause, 243.—Recession of real cause, 244. —Convergence of lines of causation, 245.—Ineradicable belief in primary causation, 245.—Influence of monotheism, 246.—Science does not attain to real causes, 246-247.—Antecedent not necessarily cause, 247.—Induct- ive and deductive procedures, 248.—Law not efficient, 249.—The law of the survival of the fittest, 249.—Conditions are not causes, 250-251 — The environment only a condition, 251-252.—Consccutiveness not a causal relation, 252.—Principle applied to the hypothesis of derivation of species, 252-254.—Organically remembered experiences, 254 —Con- comitancy not a causal relation, 255.— Unconscious cerebration 255 —