The Story of the Earth and ManDawson, John William, Sir
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The Story of the Earth and Man
Dawson, John William, Sir
Human beings -- Origin; Paleontology
The only remedy in the case is a higher and more general scientific
education; and yet I do not wonder that many good men object to this,
simply because of the difficulty of finding honest and competent
teachers, themselves well grounded in their subjects, and free from
that too common insanity of specialists and half-educated men, which
impels them to run amuck at everything that does not depend on their
own methods of research. This is a difficulty which can be met in our
time only by the general good sense and right feeling of the
community taking a firm hold of the matter, and insisting on the
organization and extension of the higher scientific education, as well
as that of a more elementary character, under the management of able
and sane men. Yet even if not so counteracted, present follies will
pass away, and a new and better state of natural science will arise in
the future, by its own internal development. Science cannot long
successfully isolate itself from God. Its life lies in the fact that
it is the exponent of the plans and works of the great Creative Will.
It must, in spite of itself, serve His purposes, by dispelling
blighting ignorance and superstition, by lighting the way to
successive triumphs of human skill over the powers of nature, and by
guarding men from the evils that flow from infringement of natural
laws. And it cannot fail, as it approaches nearer to the boundaries of
that which may be known by finite minds, to be humbled by the
contemplation of the infinite, and to recognise therein that
intelligence of which the human mind is but the image and shadow.
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