Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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man, and man accepts something only when he
himself is willing to do so. If he is not, no argument,
however sound it may be, will convince him.
Arguments are not, sad to say, electric switches.
That man, with all his capacity for reasoning,
should so seldom, himself, be amenable to
reasoning, is perhaps the greatest tragedy of human
history.
1. John Wilson,
Philosophy and Religion,
London,
1861, p. 36.
2. J.W.N. Sullivan,
the Limitations of Science,
pp.
138-50.
3.
The Mysterious Universe,
p. 122.
4
. Ibid..
pp. 136-38.
5. Quoted by A.N. Gilke in
Faith for the Modern
Man.
p.l09.
6
. The Mysterious Universe,
p. 135.
