. Facts and fancies in modern science [microform] : studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief : being the lectures of the Samuel A. Crozer Foundation in connection with the Crozer Theological Seminary, for 1881. Evolution and religion; Creation; Man; Natural selection; Evolution et religion; Création; Homme; Sélection naturelle. IN MODERN SCIENCE. lOI * â ⢠i If ^ny one thinks that this is an exaggerated picture of the effects of agnostic evolution as applied to man, I may refer him to the study of Herbert Spencer's recent work The Data of EthicSy wh
. Facts and fancies in modern science [microform] : studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief : being the lectures of the Samuel A. Crozer Foundation in connection with the Crozer Theological Seminary, for 1881. Evolution and religion; Creation; Man; Natural selection; Evolution et religion; Création; Homme; Sélection naturelle. IN MODERN SCIENCE. lOI * â ⢠i If ^ny one thinks that this is an exaggerated picture of the effects of agnostic evolution as applied to man, I may refer him to the study of Herbert Spencer's recent work The Data of EthicSy which has contributed very much to open the eyes of thoughtful men to the depth of spiritual, moral, and even social and political, ruin into which we shall drift under the guid- ance of this philosophy. In this work the data of ethics are reduced to the one consideration of what is "pleasurable" to ourselves and others, and it is admitted that our ideas of conscience, duty, and even of social obliga- tion, are merely fictions of temporary use un- til the time shall come when what is pleasurable to ourselves shall coincide with what is pleas- urable to others; and this is to come, not out of the love of God and the influence of his Spirit, but out of the blind struggle of oppos- ing interests. It has been well said that this system of moralsâif it can be dignified with such a nameâis inferior, logically and prac- tically, not only to the "supernatural ethics" which it boastfully professes to replace, but to the ethics of Aristotle and Cicero, and that " it will not supersede revelation, nor is it likely to displace the old data of ethics, whether Greek, 9». Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1820-1899. Philadelphia : American
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