The Idolatry of Science 



The knowledge of past discoveries in the 

 physical world and the hope of discovering 

 new ones, the results of which, with hardly 

 an exception, are to make the face of the 

 earth hideous and disgusting, to aggravate in 

 an appalling crescendo men's means of 

 slaughtering one another, to increase every- 

 where facilities for bodily self-indulgence, and 

 forcibly to concentrate the mind of man on 

 things physical instead of things spiritual. 



Some few of us vehemently prefer the 

 ancient wisdom to the modern knowledge. 



Nothing so abject and deplorable in modern 

 times has ever been witnessed as the practical 

 abdication of the Church and the clergy 

 before the insolence of the Royal Society and 

 the professors. 



An hypothesis nothing more is advanced 



by the scientific that man is no more than 



an improved arboreal ape, and all the bishops, 



priests and deacons tumble over one another 



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