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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...intelligences rather than dead and aimless. The business of science is, indeed, analysis. It returns us elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist can tell us about them." But we are not to look for gain in religion more than in science. It might have been hoped that our author would grant us a faith somewhat purer and stronger than that of the worshippers of Ahura-Mazda, but he tells us, "a godless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA ORATION. | 10/9/1874 | See Source »

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