SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



They are strangers to dialectic reasoning, and 

 the old style of argument no longer holds. 



But their champions fail to realize this. Argu- 

 ments that have been chewed ad nauseam for 

 fifteen centuries are still supposed to satisfy a 

 mind acquainted with the weightiest facts against 

 them. 



Mosaic revelation had adjusted itself as best 

 it could to its earlier defeats. When the travel- 

 ers and navigators demonstrated to every 

 unbiased brain's satisfaction that orthodoxy's in- 

 spired men were ignorant of geography, the 

 advocates of the theological creation theories 

 mumbled confused excuses about the " divine 

 intention " to limit human understanding, until it 

 should please God to grant us more wisdom. 

 When it was shown by the astronomers, that 

 revelation had been mistaken in considering the 

 earth as the center of the universe and the sun 

 as a terrestrial satellite, the same stale excuse 

 was haled forth, after the most vindictive and 

 narrow-minded opposition had proven ineffective 

 against the new facts. Then the theologians 

 readjusted their revelation to suit this advance 

 of the human mind, made in the face of their 

 resistance. When science began to establish the 

 fact of the mechanical origin of the universe, and 



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