The Idolatry of Science 



would not have been better without even 

 this last triumph of Science. 



Some enemy of mankind invented the 

 submarine, and by its means sixteen thousand 

 British mercantile seamen have been sent to 

 the bottom of the sea by our unspeakable 

 enemies. 



Science in time of peace deprives man ot 

 beauty in the world about him and of 

 magnanimity in his mind within him. In the 

 physical world it turns a smiling country into 

 a blackened slag heap ; it has given us the 

 Black Country, the Rhondda Valley, and 

 Landore, and in the spiritual world it has 

 given us the Germans and the vivisectors ! 



To some of us the abominations practised 

 by the Germans, those last favoured products 

 of Science, in this war have come as no 

 surprise ; we have long proclaimed whither 

 the insensate prostration of the modern 

 world before this Idolon was leading mankind. 



