Memorial, Vol. 10

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Excerpt from Memorial, Vol. 10: Edition of Collected Works of W. J Fox The strife, begun in ignorance, has continued in preju dice, and though, by one step after another, the onward march of nature and of truth has been held, the resistance seems to hold its fierce and unrelenting tone. It obtains not in dark regions merely, - in superstitious countries, it obtains in the most enlightened. The Catholic world had its fierce warfare, and made its martyrs, when astronomy invaded its notions. The Protestant world has shown a kindred spirit of persecution which, though not carried to the length of imprisonment, has yet been carried on in aspersions upon individuals, and in darkening their prospects, when geological science has made its advances. Now, all this is fallacious, all this is wrong. There can be no such discrepancy between real religion and ascertained science, and better that a writer of the New or Old Testament had no inspiration in him, - better that no antique mode of theology at all were found to be authentic or deserving of faith, - than that we should have such a barrier opposed to man's progress in all that makes the knowledge which, as it grows, opens before him sublimer views than any which can be superseded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.