The Religion Of Science Or The Art Of Actualizing Liberty And Of Perfecting And Satisfactorily Prolonging Happiness

Author : Calvin Blanchard
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230279107
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The Religion of Science; Or, the Art of Actualizing Liberty, and of Perfecting and Satisfactorily Prolonging Happiness written by Calvin Blanchard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... "With respect to the most ilisheartening theory of Mackintosh, (advanced in his "Electrical Theory of The Universe," a most valuable work, otherwise, ) that the orbits of the planets are constantly diminishing, and that all the secondary planets will finally fall to their primaries, he certainly brings many indisputable facts tending to prove that all things are approximating towards this end. Still, we are without any experience on the subject, and his facts no more prove what he claims that they do, than the fact that the human foetus starts from the apparently common nucleus of all animal nature-- the vermiform--as a fish, proves that human beings are fishes. In a vast number of instances, nature pursues a course very different from the one which she, in due time, so abruptly takes as to disappoint or sorely chagrin the too specially--too short-sighted scientific--all who cannot take encyclopedical views. But hear the accomplished author of the " Vestiges of The Natural History of Creation," on this head: --" Judging by anology, we might expect to see several varieties of the being homo. There is no other family approaching to this in importance, which presents but one species. The corvidse, our parallel in aves, consists of several distinct genera and sub-genera. It is startling to find such an appearance ot imperfection in the circle to which man belongs, and the ideas which rise in consequence are not less startling. la our race but the initial of the grand crowning type? Are there yet to be species superior to us in organization, purer in feeling, more powerful in device and art? * * * * There is in this nothing improbable on other grounds. The present race, rude and impulsive as it is, is perhaps the best adapted to the present...