Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IL CAUSES OF THE ACTUAL ANTAGONISM OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND THE RELIGIOUS WORLD. Religion and Science, then, have no good cause for antagonism, but rather for amity and sympathy. Why, then, should they have had so many apparenfcbnflicts; why should there be so much jealousy, suspicion, and ill-feeling, between scientific and religious bodies. C There are many causes. But the main ones are these three: First and chief, ignorance. Few of the religious have understood religion. They have""been familiar, of course, with its practical applications; the forms of . worship, the moral and philanthropical duties which it has demanded. They have studied carefully Scripture texts, and writings of the fathers, and the creeds of the councils; but about the fundamental principles of religion, its real grounds, limits, and proper domain, there has been a great lack of knowledge Similarly, few scientific men have really comprehended science. Facts of chemistry, of astronomy, of geology, they have learned with wonderful thoroughness; but the principles of scientific investigation, its capabilities and limits, they have known little of. Physicists speak familiarly of scientific method, but " they could not,"says Professor Jevons, " readily describe what they mean by that expression. Profoundly engaged in the study of particular classes of natural phenomena, they are usually too much engrossed in the immense and ever-accumulating details of their special sciences, to generalize upon the methods of reasoning which they unconsciously employ." Professor Jevons's words find a noticeable illustration in the fact that the only considerable treatises upon scientific method, or the principles of physical inquiry which have been written in the present century, Mill's " Logic of the Inductive Sc...