Show AND BALFOUR herbert spencer I 1 ib b reply to mr bal fours able ble plea pies for religion argues that the authority of science clence is greater than that of reft loo and con eudes that it 11 reon MOOD ban baa to abdicate to in favor of aUt authority bority it is i to accept the cortner rather chas the there to ia a comiry led by science olence be leyvi ayr mankind bave progressed ewd from boomerang to ton guns guir from dugi ug out oat canoes to atlantic linear irom pic ture tun writing on skins ilni to morning journals four nals printed twenty thousand per hour and that over oil 11 II the developed arts of life science now pr sides bides scarcely needs need B saying baying with the authority of science dally daily becoming greater contrast be adds the opposed authority have hare the propositions constituting current theology been rendered more certain with the passage of time and the advance of knowledge or has the contrary happeney happe bapp neu eneo clearly then by the never dever ceasing ver vers fi cation of its dicta and by the loireas lag ing and wider range of its guidance eui dance science is gaining a greater and greater authority at the same flame time that the authority of theolo theology gry Is i belne being decreased by the discrediting of its ite statements and by its regulation of conduct spencer to is a keen logician but be does not dot add to his tame by the employment P of this ato argument since glace he takes no do notice of the he part theology has played in the world but ascribes all material progress pro grees to science why then do sciences ole noea chiefly flourish in christian countries and why are they boj io cendan an ascendancy ey where the rays raya of the shi bine with the greatest brilliancy how is in ft t that the med saval decay of religion ie as attended with the arrest of human progress program and chat ae be revival of learning Jearol ng and subsequent quent strides onward only come came after a religious revival why are not dot the chinese today as a far advanced as aa the and wb why IT did the countries conquered by the madans retrograde from their position ot 0 standard bearers ot of civilization to one little better than barbaraa bar barla 0 s why are not the indians la in this country and the Laplan laplanders La dere ot of scandinavia a a lar ar advanced as their white neighbors Is tt it not evident tant an investigation of this subject abject would force the impartial inquirer to admit that science without religion falu s inadequate adequate toleah to lead mankind onward and if at p why contrast we the authority ot of one to that 0 ot I 1 adehel an AD thel the fact te Is that bat the be world ban baft beso been temporarily blinded by the flood of light thrown upon it lately and ag clem has haa been the result but this effect to is passi passing Dg and the discovery will follow that thai truth Is truth whether flowing through the channels ob annela of science or religion and that one is 10 but blit the complement of the other there are fundamental ideas entirely the scope of 0 science and yet essential to human knowledge for this thip science la Is helpless without religion rell gloo |