World, and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other
forces, I can see no reason for doubting that all are co-ordinate terms
of nature's great progression, from formless to formed, from the
inorganic to the organic, from blind force to conscious intellect and
will." _Huxley's Evidence of Man's Place in Nature_, London, 1864, p.
107. A writer in the _Spectator_ charged Professor Huxley with Atheism.
The professor replies, in the number of that paper for February 10,
1866, thus: "I do not know that I care very much about popular odium, so
there is no great merit in saying that if I really saw fit to deny the
existence of a God I should certainly do so for the sake of my own
intellectual freedom, and be the honest Atheist you are pleased to say I
am. As it happens, however, I can not take this position with honesty,
inasmuch as it is, and always has been, a favorite tenet that Atheism is
as absurd, logically speaking, as Polytheism." In the same sheet, he
says: "The denying the possibility of miracles seems to me quite as
unjustifiable as Atheism." Is Huxley in conflict with Huxley? THE
TRIUMPHING REIGN OF LIGHT. The next psychic cycle, it seems to me, will
witness a synthesis of thought and faith, a recognition of the fact that
it is impossible for reason to find solid ground that is not consecrated
ground; that all philosophy and all science belong to religion; that all
truth is a revelation of God; that the truths of written revelation, if
not intelligible to reason, are nevertheless consonant with reason; and
that divine agency, instead of standing removed from man by infinite
intervals of time and space, is, indeed, the true name of those energies
which work their myriad phenomena in the natural world around us. This
consummation--at once the inspiration of a fervent religion and the
prophecy of the loftiest science--is to be the noontide reign of wedded
intellect and faith, whose morning rays already stream far above our
horizon.--_Winchell._ Re. and Sci. p. 84.
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matter which we regard as inert and dead, assumes action, intelligence,
and life, whe
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