Excerpt from Three Lectures on the Theory of Natural Evolution: Delivered in S. Thomas' Church, Ootacamund
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." - Genesis i., 26-27.
It is the glory and boast of science that it is founded on fact. Without this, the scientific investigator will accept no theory or dogma, supported though it be by antiquity, however venerable, by authority, however commanding, by belief, however universal. With a mind unwarped by prejudice, he sits down, and with the simplicity of a child asks nature what she has to teach. He does not care for imaginings, he wants to know what is. And it is to such as these, simple, earnest, honest searchers after truth, that Nature reveals her secrets. Thus we see the God of Truth says in Nature, as well as in revelation, to all searchers after truth, whether physical or religious, "If ye would be my disciples, ye must become "as little children."
In this spirit, - just the humble desire to know what is true, - I believe, many of the leading scientific men of the present day are interrogating nature. And most wondrously hath she responded to many of their queries, and lifted the veil from some of the most hidden mysteries to their ravished gaze.
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