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The church has learned wisdom. The persecution of Galileo is 

 not likely to be repeated, nor even the milder forms of persecution 

 which assailed the geologists at the beginning, and the evolutionists 

 in the middle, of our century. And science, too, has learned 

 something. In all its wealth of discovery, it recognizes more 

 clearly than ever before the fathomless abysses of the unknown 

 and unknowable. It stands with unsandaled feet in the presence 

 of mysteries that transcend human thought. Religion never so 

 tolerant. Science never so reverent. Nearer than ever before 

 seems the time when all souls that are loyal to truth and goodness 

 shall find fellowship in freedom of faith and in service of love. 



William North Rice. 



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