Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY SKETCH
- CHAPTER II POSITION TAKEN BY THE AUTHORS—PHYSICAL AXIOMS
- CHAPTER III THE PRESENT PHYSICAL UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER IV MATTER AND ETHER
- CHAPTER V DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER VI SPECULATIONS AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCES IN THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER VII THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY SKETCH
- CHAPTER II POSITION TAKEN BY THE AUTHORS—PHYSICAL AXIOMS
- CHAPTER III THE PRESENT PHYSICAL UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER IV MATTER AND ETHER
- CHAPTER V DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER VI SPECULATIONS AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCES IN THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER VII THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE
Summary
Forgetful of the splendid example shown by intellectual giants like Newton and Faraday, and aghast at the materialistic statements now-a-days freely made (often professedly in the name of science), the orthodox in religion are in somewhat evil case.
As a natural consequence of their too hastily reached conclusion, that modern science is incompatible with Christian doctrine, not a few of them have raised an outcry against science itself. This result is doubly to be deplored; for there cannot be a doubt that it is calculated to do mischief, not merely to science but to religion.
Our object, in the present work, is to endeavour to show that the presumed incompatibility of Science and Religion does not exist. This, indeed, ought to be self-evident to all who believe that the Creator of the Universe is Himself the Author of Revelation. But it is strangely impressive to note how very little often suffices to alarm- even the firmest of human faith. Of course we cannot, in this small volume, enter upon the whole of so vast a subject, and we have therefore contented ourselves with a brief, though, we hope, sufficiently developed, discussion of one very important—even fundamental—point. We endeavour to show, in fact, that immortality is strictly in accordance with the principle of Continuity (rightly viewed); that principle which has been the guide of all modern scientific advance.
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- The Unseen UniversePhysical Speculations on a Future State, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1875