The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

116 SCIENCE AND RELIGIOfl.to the reality of the supernatural. The onlytestimony that can be given here must be of adifferent kind; and if there be some who refuseto credit anything save what conies withinrange of the senses, or is deducible directlyand simply from what the senses make known,there is no help for them. Neither science,nor philosophy, nor religion can deliver themfrom the narrow round of materialism. Butneither science, nor philosophy, nor religion,can restrict itself to the testimony of thesenses. A deeper, and wider range of inquiryis demanded of the man who wouldwalk at large in the vast field spread out innature. All human life is subjected to thetest of accepting evidence other than thatthe senses supply. If some refuse to submitto this deeper and wider test, narrowing theirconvictions accordingly, others are not to berestricted in this way, nor are they to beinfluenced by such determination even on thepart of highly distinguished scientific men.For, it can not be overlooked that this is nota question of science, nor does it imply anything but an ordinary exercise of intelligence.The one test for the public mind is this,-Isit or is it not true that not an atom of matter