Science and Ugliness 



The whole universe is its cathedral. 



Science strives day and night to blind 

 men's eyes so that they shall not see it, and 

 where it succeeds men are robbed of a 

 perfect and stainless happiness ; for the 

 appreciation and perception of beauty is its 

 own reward, it confers pleasure that is 

 utterly pure, it fosters in the mind refined 

 and tender feelings and emotions, it elevates 

 the character and fills the heart with wonder 

 and love and gratitude, and, as Addison has 

 said, "it strikes the mind with an inward 

 joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight 

 through all the faculties." 



Only the wickedness and perversion of 

 man can defile the world as it came from the 

 hand of its Creator, and obliterate its beauty. 



" And God saw everything that he had 

 made, and behold it was very good." 



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