Science and Ugliness 



ages, fills the uninitiated with reverence and 

 fosters this insensate idolatry. 



Perhaps the most awful effect upon the 

 modern world of the dominance of Science is 

 the submersion of beauty and the exaltation 

 of ugliness. Science tells us that beauty is 

 entirely subjective ; that as an objective 

 quality of matter it can have no real exist- 

 ence ; that a dead body in process of 

 corruption and a lily of the valley are both 

 nothing but manifestations of irrefragable 

 laws and inherently do not differ ; and that 

 only in the mind of man sunk in deplorable 

 prejudice does the one appear ugly and the 

 other beautiful. Of anything that Science 

 in its vanity cannot explain it will, if it can, 

 deny the existence. 



As Science cannot explain it, Science 

 would deny the existence of life if it could 

 do it with any chance of success. 



Fortunately we are all conscious of being 

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