Continuity of Life a Cosmic Truth; Based Upon the Principles of Natural Philosophy and the Co-Relations of Nature's Elements, Energies and Forces - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... THE RELATION SCIENCE HOLDS TO NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; AND ITS CONFLICT WITH EVERY PHASE OF RELIGION. The numerous discoveries made by scientific investigation during the last quarter of a century, have so far made its inductions popular, that now every divergent system of belief within the domain of sociology would fain employ it in verification of their respective claims. Nothing is more common than to hear an advocate of a dogma or creed cite some premise of science in confirmation of a creedal claim, postulated in the unknowable, which postulate, if acceded to, will have a tendency to impress the popular mind with the data and proportions of a scientific proof in the conclusions reached. The avidity and eagerness with which all of these assumptive speculators grasp at a scientific thought when it seems to promote the truthfulness or strength of their position, is only equalled by the unqualified zeal with which they will repudiate both science, and its formulas, whenever its inductions are antipodal to, and refute their claims. The prevailing looseness with which this class of superficial thinkers employ the term, is manifest in the fact that it is constantly referred to as a schism, and in an individual sense; when in reality the term science is a general term applicable to those formulas of research by which every branch and department of human knowledge is established. Hence, it is the name of a method by which natural philosophy as a sequence to scientific investigation is verified; and being the name of a method, it cannot be at the same time the name of the fact which it demonstrates. One writer affirms that 'science is classified knowledge." Another that "science is reasoned truth;" and another that "science is the knowledge of nature, its laws, and f...

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