Transcriber's Note
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| THE CONFLICT. | 1 |
| THE BIBLE—THE BACKGROUND AND THE PICTURE. | 5 |
| A FUNERAL ORATION. | 17 |
| THE MOTIVE THAT LED MEN TO ADOPT DARWINISM. | 20 |
| SHALL WE ABANDON OUR RELIGION? | 23 |
| THE DOMAIN OR PROVINCE OF SCIENCE. | 26 |
| BLIND FORCE OR INTELLIGENCE, WHICH? | 30 |
| SPECIES, OR UNITS OF NATURE. | 33 |
| MISCELLANEOUS. | 39 |
The pyramids, temples and palaces of Thebes are monuments of the ancientintellects of our race. Great thinkers only were capable of giving tothe world the Vedas, the Apollo Belvidere and the Parthenon. The artsand astronomy of Egypt harmonize very poorly with the idea that modernscientists have all the wisdom and intelligence known in the history ofthe ages. Among the wonderful characters of olden times we findEpictetus, Josephus, Strabo, Pliny, Seneca, Virgil, Aristotle, Plato,Tacitus, Thucydides and Herodotus.
The "Speculation of Evolution of Species" was advocated among the Greekssix hundred years before the birth of Christ. Two thousand and threehundred years ago the entire system of German philosophy, along withmodern pantheism, was advocated by the Buddhists and Brahmins.
In many very important respects the ancients were in advance of us,especially in the arts, and we can not boast of superiority in eitherletters or philosophy. "The gentlemen of modern materialistic schools donot compare favorably with Plato and Cicero in the elevation andreverence of their opinions." "Science has certainly made someadvancement, but where is the warrant for the boasting" of sciolists ofmodern times?
Buddhists taught the most perfect outline of materialism in general."They believed in a supreme force, but denied the existence of a SupremeBeing. They rejected inquiry into first causes as unscientific,"maintaining that facts alone were to be dealt with in all ourinvestigations.
The Brahmin contemplated the moment when his spirit would flow back intothe great "Pantheistic Being."
Modern materialis