The Reconciliation of Religion and Science: Being Essays on Immortality (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Eeing that more than half the differences of opinion in philosophy and theology are due to the use of words in different senses, it may be well to define in what sense the words religion and science are used in this volume. It is, I may say, the popular, ordinary, and quite intelligible sense which they commonly bear - indeed, in my opinion, the general public has often a better reason for, and more method in, its use of language than the wise men who are for ever setting it to rights. Science is simply the process by which mankind derives knowledge from reason ing about facts. (occasionally I may have used the word in its more restricted sense of natural science - 21a, that department of knowledge which deals with physical facts.) Religion is the word that describes the relations of man with the power or being whom we call God.

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