Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations
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ISBN13: 9780217864350
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION BY ANDREW PRESTON PEABODY Delivered before the Alpha of Massachusetts, at Harvard University, August 28, 1845. My friend and classmate,1 who addressed you on your last anniversary, discoursed to you wisely and eloquently on the connection between moral culture and literary success and eminence. I heartily thank him, that he has left open for me a kindred vein of thought, richer still, though to be worked, I fear, with a skill inferior to his. I refer to the connection between science and religion, ? a connection obvious when theoretically considered, and capable of actual verification in the authentic history of science; enjoying indeed, over a similar view of literature, this advantage, that literary worth is a matter of individual taste, and, if people choose to admire Voltaire or worship Goethe, none can gainsay them, while every new discovery or generalization in science is a fixed fact in the annals of the race, and every non- discoverer in the walks of science is an equally fixed and indisputable negative fact. Think not that I appear on this occasion in a professional capacity, and am going to inflict a sermon on an audience convened for a widely different purpose. Elsewhere it is my province to present religion in queenly robes, and with a voice of absolute command; here I ask you to regard her merely as a handmaid. Yet, should her fidelity as a servant win any heart to do homage to her as a sovereign, I shall have attained my ultimate desire and aim. But my design is to offer you such a view, as might be presented by a professedly scientific man of a sufficiently catholic mind to take religion into the circle of the sciences. There is a wide difference between knowledge and science. Isolated facts and phenomena a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217864350 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021786435X |
| Weight | 1.15 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $27.09 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 354 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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