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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
The Light of Day (1900)
Theology passes; religion, as a sentiment or feeling of awe and reverence in the presence of the vastness and mystery of the universe, remains.
The Light of Day (1900)
Science, in the broadest sense, is simply that which may be verified; but how much of that which theology accepts and goes upon is verifiable by human reason or experience?
The Light of Day (1900)
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
The Light of Day (1900)
All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.
The Light of Day (1900)
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
The Light of Day (1900)
Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe.
The Light of Day (1900)
...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
The Light of Day (1900)
From the first the progress of man has been slowly but surely from the artificial to the natural, from the arbitrary and chimerical to the simple and scientific. Getting himself and his affairs more and more into natural currents and following them, this is the way man has progressed.
The Light of Day (1900)