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

68 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.sense satisfactory, as suggesting more harmonybetween science and religion than thegeneral tenor of the book conveys, that ProfessorDraper has " had little to say " respectingthe Protestant and Greek Churches. Butthe reasons for making the Roman division ofthe Church representative of the whole arefar from satisfactory. It is as if one werebent on fighting, but determined always to selectthe weakest antagonist to be found. Noris the case improved by the defence offered.Dr. Draper says, "In thus treating the subject;it has not been necessary to pay muchregard to more moderate or intermediate opinions,for, though they may be intrinsically ofgreat value, in conflicts of this kind it is notwith the moderates, but with the extremists,that the impartial reader is mainly concerned.Their movements determine the issue." * Thisis, I think, an unwise conclusion. Extremistsmay determine the erratic deflections of amovement; they do not decide its issues. Theydiscover the heat, rather than the thought, involvedin intellectual conflict. They contributeto vortex movement, rather than onward.In consequence of his plan of procedure,g Preface X.