But when science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of theology, and sets up its own conception of the order of nature as a sufficient account of its cause, it is invading a province of thought to which it has no claim, and not... Nature - Page 306edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
| William Jackson - 1875 - 452 pages
...stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the Soul." The Science of Modern times, however, has taken a more special direction. Fixing its attention exclusively...passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of Theology, and sets up its own conception of the Order of Nature as a sufficient account of... | |
| 1878 - 818 pages
...Nature, it has separated itself wholly from theology, whose function it is to seek after its cause. .... But, when science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the pi, tee of theology and sets up its own conception of the order of Nature as a sufficient account of... | |
| Alexander John Ellis - 1882 - 110 pages
...phenomena — " has separated itself wholly from theology, whose function it is to seek after its cause. In this, science is fully justified alike by the entire...impeded in its search for the truth as it is in nature" — for the discovery of invariable unconditional relations, giving the power of prediction and consequent... | |
| Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pages
...with which, ever since Science emancipated itself from Theology and set up for itself, it has been hampered and impeded in its search for the truth as...Theologians have attempted to impose upon its inquiries. The Romish Church, adopting the philosophy of Aristotle into its own theological system, opposed as... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 604 pages
...Nature, it has separated itself wholly from theology, whose function it is to seek after its cause. . . . But, when science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of theology, and sets up its own conception of the order of Nature as a sufficient account of... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1883 - 598 pages
...has separated itself wholly from theology, whose function is to seek its cause. In this (physical) science is fully justified, alike by the entire independence...been continually hampered and impeded in its search after truth as it is in nature, by the restraints which theologians have attempted to impose on its... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1883 - 618 pages
...objects, and by the historical fact that it has been continually hampered and impeded in its search after truth as it is in nature, by the restraints which theologians have attempted to impose on its inquiries. But when (physical) science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place... | |
| 1882 - 896 pages
...from Theology and set up for itself, it has been hampered and impeded in its search for the truth asit is in Nature, by the restraints which Theologians have attempted to impose upon its inquiries. The Romish Church, adopting the philosophy of Aristotle into its own theological system, opposed as... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1888 - 518 pages
...Nature, it has separated itself wholly from theology, whose function it is to seek after its cause. In this, science is fully justified, alike by the...science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take P the place of theology, and sets up its own conception of the order of Nature as a sufficient account... | |
| Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - 702 pages
...never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death. — JC RYLE. But when science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of theology, and sets up its own conception of the order of nature as a sufficient account of... | |
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