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

296 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.degree affected; on the grounds now contemplatedwe come to recognize a harmonyof higher and lower orders of fixed law bearingon the history of the human race, andfor this harmony of law our Saviour manifesteda supreme concern.With these brief statements before us, weare now prepared for turning in a differentdirection to ascertain what is the specialview of miracle which has found currencywithin some scientific circles, carrying the explanationof intense antipathy to its acknowledgment,and unhesitating declaration thatthe whole body of scientific teaching, andeven the characteristics of scientific method,are adverse to the very conception of miracle.For the purpose now in view it maybe well to present in close coiinection thesuccessive utterances of a single author, whomay be taken as representative of a class.The work of Professor Schmidt on The Doctrineof Descent and Darwinism will supply illustrationsof the kind to which reference hasbeen made, as this author states at the outsetthat the doctrine of descent finds its antagonistsamong those " who perceive, moreor less distinctly, the danger with which the