Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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itself with life or was actively hostile to life.
The old dualism of mind and matter, which
was mainly responsible for the supposed
hostility, seems likely to disappear, not
through matter becoming in any way more
shadowy or insubstantial than heretofore, or
through mind becoming resolved into a
function of the working of matter, but
through substantial matter resolving itself
into a creation and manifestation of mind. We
discover that the universe shows evidence of a
designing or controlling power that has
something in common with our own
individual minds not, so far as we have
discovered, emotion, morality, or aesthetic
appreciation, but the tendency to think in the
way, which, for want of a better word, we
describe as mathematical.
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In spite of this complete about-face in science from
the academic point of view, it is a fact that, in
practice, there have been no noticeable changes in
the attitudes of anti-religionists. On the contrary,
they are engaged in seeking new arguments to
support their theory. The reason for this is not to be
