leader among modern biologists has come to any such conclusion. People are apt to forget that, while Lord Kelvin is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished living physicists, he is not himself a biologist.
13
See
14
This assertion is severely criticised by Mr. Joseph McCabe in the
15
Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, the distinguished naturalist and evolutionist, is another scientist with spiritist convictions, and his concern for supernatural religion led him to step outside his own domain and make that remarkable attack upon current scientific opinions in astronomical matters which met with such unanimous condemnation (see the
16
In the
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At Exeter Hall, in March, 1905, Lady Blount developed her “flat-earth” theory, and accused Newton of want of logic.
18
A book, edited by the Rev. J. E. Hand (George Allen), which gives, perhaps, the best that can be said by able and fair-minded men, writing in the light of the latest knowledge and criticism, in favour of a reconciliation between religion and science. The book contains essays by various authors—Sir O. Lodge, Professors Thomson, Geddes, and Muirhead, the Rev. P. N. Waggett, the Rev. John Kelman, and others.
19
Dr. W. Barry, in his
20
Author of a vituperative libel on agnostics, called
21
The psychical aspect of the belief of such persons is discussed in Chap. VI., § 5.
22
Canon Scott Holland, in a sermon preached in St. Paul’s Cathedral on the first Sunday after Epiphany, 1905. See also Appendix.
23
The Secretary of the Rationalist Press Association has received several private letters from clergymen expressing their desire to leave the Church if they could find some employment. They usually have large families dependent upon them for support.
24
I omit all mention of the trading or domestic classes who often depend directly for their support on strict religionists. The way in which “their bread is buttered” is bound to enter considerably into their calculations, and also they have often even less leisure for the study of modern thought than a steady (temperate) working man.
25
A cheap edition has since been published by the R. P. A.
26
27
See Appendix.
28
29
Although the Church has ever been charitable, she has made no effort to
30
Essay on “Possibilities and Impossibilities,” appearing in the
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Paley’s
32
In his book,
33
In his notable oration upon the apparitions of Llanthony.
34
See p. 132 of
35
See p. 222 of
36
See p. 51 of
37
Extract from a sermon preached in St. Paul’s, Finsbury, on November 23rd, 1904.
38
This explanation has been given by the Rev. Samuel Cox, and it is quoted with approval by the Bishop of London on p. 63 of his little work,
39
See p. 41 of
40
Article “Genesis.”
41
42
By the author of
43
See
44
See article “Paul” in the
45
See article “Epistolary Literature” in the
46
Swedenborgians (the New Jerusalem Church) are to be found scattered throughout almost every part of Christendom. In England, principally in Lancashire and Yorkshire, there are seventy-five societies with 6,063 registered members.
47
Eight persons in all testify to the apparition of the Virgin Mary in the Abbot’s meadow at Llanthony on September 15th, 1880.
48
Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.
49
See p. 31 of
50
See, for instance, art. “Moses,”
51
Quoted from a sermon by the Bishop of London in Fulham parish, Christmas Day, 1904. Compare this with Dr. Kirkpatrick’s remark, p. 2 of his book,
52
“The adjective ‘higher’ (the sense of which is often misunderstood) has reference simply to the higher and more difficult class of problems, with which, as opposed to textual criticism, the ‘higher’ criticism has to deal” (see Preface to
53
See Appendix.
54
Exodus xxxi. 18 and xxxii. 16. Or, to be precise, these having been broken and their fragments considered of no value at the time, the duplicates carefully prepared and inscribed to the dictation of God Himself (Exodus xxxix.).
