Religion and Science from Galileo to BergsonHardwick, J. C. (John Charlton)
Religion
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson
Hardwick, J. C. (John Charlton)
Religion and science
[59] The extraordinary and miraculous phenomena of instinct--especially
as celebrated by the distinguished French scientist Fabre--cannot be
rightly understood by trying to interpret them in terms of intellect.
This is to misread them completely.
[60] Bergson's characterisation of Spencerian Evolutionism (_Creative
Evolution_, p. 391).
[61] _Creative Evolution_, p. 286.
[62] Other notable pluralists in England are F. C. S. Schiller and Dr.
MacTaggart.
[63] The _logical_ conclusion, we say, though this may not be the
ultimate truth about the matter. The most attractive theories are often
the most superficial.
[64] Professor Cunningham in Pearson's _Grammar of Science_, Part I, p.
356.
[65] Quoted by W. C. D. Whetham in his _Recent Development of Physical
Science_, p. 280. No reference is given by him.
[66] One theory attributes the existence of matter to occasional misfits
among these grains.
[67] Quoted by Bishop Mercer. _Problem of Creation_, Appendix B.
[68] In _Theism and Humanism_.
[69] Mercer, op. cit., p. 106.
[70] _Mechanism, Life, and Personality_ (1913), p. 81.
[71] Op. cit. pp. 64, 66.
[72] Professor J. Arthur Thomson, in an article entitled, "Is there one
Science of Nature?" (_Hibbert Journal_, Oct., 1911).
[73] _The Science and Philosophy of the Organism_, Vol. II, p. 338.
[74] Op. cit. p. 101.
[75] Other names of distinguished scientists holding this view are: Sir
W. Crookes the Physicist and Sir W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., in England, Dr.
Hodgson and Prof. James Hyslop in America, Lombroso in Italy, Richet in
France.
[76] From his _Duplik_. Quoted by Hoeffding, _History of Philosophy_,
Vol. II, p. 21.
[77] F. H. Bradley on "Phenomenalism" (_Appearance and Reality_, p.
126).
[78] Hoeffding, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 129.
[79] Feuerbach, _Essence of Christianity_, p. 21.
[80] We now learn that conceptions of space of a highly unorthodox
character are entertained by physicists and mathematicians, as the
result of recent researches in the sphere of the gravitation of light.
INDEX
Agnosticism, 92
Anti-clericalism, 43
Aquinas, 9 f., 30 _n._
Aristotle, 8, 136
Atomic theory, the, 49
collapse of, 126
Bacon, Lord, 16 f.
Balfour, A. J., 105 f., 110, 128
Bergson, 115-121, 143
Berkeley, 55
Boutroux, 112 f., 143
Bradley, F. H., 104 f., 110, 122, 139
Bruno, 12, 25, 29 f., 140
Buechner, 86, 144
Buffon, 77
Carlyle, Thomas, 38, 99-102
Coleridge, S. T., 98 f.
Comte, 85, 89, 92
Copernicus, 11, 22, 25, 58
Cunningham, Prof., 127
Cusanus, 10
Dalton, 49, 83, 126
Darwin, 80-83, 87 f.
Descartes, 19-22, 26, 37, 43, 55, 74, 136
Design, Argument from, 87 f.
Diderot, 45 f., 48, 141, 144
Driesch, 130 f.
Eckhart, 30 _n._
Encyclopaedia, The, 45
Electrons, 126
Feuerbach, 85, 95
Fichte, 65-67
Galileo, 12-15, 22, 55, 79, 136
Goethe, 30, 65
Green, T. H., 103 f.
Haeckel, 88
Haldane, Prof. J. S., 129, 132
Harvey, William, 19, 22
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