Excerpt from Pseudo-Philosophy at the End of the Nineteenth Century: An Irrationalist Trio Kidd Drummond Balfour
The old conflict between religion and science has persisted down to our own time, but under a somewhat altered aspect Neither then nor now have the combatants met on terms near enough equality to make the contest altogether a fair one. In the past, the Church, if not strong in brain, was at least powerful in arm; and if it could not convince the heretic it could at all events silence him. Then religion fought downwards upon science from the higher ground of the hillside. In our own day, thanks to the principle of compensation in the universe, the positions of the combatants have been reversed; and I am free to admit that the advantage of science is now as unfair as was the advantage of theology in the past. It is all the more unfair in that it is an advantage that science is hardly likely ever to lose again or theology ever likely again to win. There is bound to be an end, some time or other, to the dominion of brute force; and even the charming paradox of this brute force being exercised by a religion of love - by the religion of love, perhaps I ought to say - cannot hope to be permanently successful in retaining the world for the inquisitor and the hangman. These things have had their day, and are never likely to return.
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