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

JfAy'S PLACE IN TKE WOELB. 241comes the subject of inquiry. This opposingcorlviction is not necessarily religious in type,though it is supported by the whole rangeof thought concerned with the supernatural.The conviction here referred to, as lyingmore obviously across the path on which scienceis travelling, is that concerned with thepersonality of man, with the rights and respoiisibilitiesof individuals, implying acceptedconclusions on which the government, and police,and administration of affairs in every nationare based. It must, then, be clearlyrecognized that the conflict anticipated as inevitableis the conflict of knowledge of oneorder, with knowledge of a different order.It is conflict of knowledge obtained by theslow and difficult processes available to science,with knowledge possessed by all, appliedin the regulation of individual and sociallife, and systematized in the annals ofmental philosophy; or, we may more nearlydescribe the condition of matters by sayingthat the occasion of conflict is the determinationof science to include all within itsown area, rather than the possession of actualknowledge as to the highest order of life, forscience is only seeking, and can not profess to