Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Open Court, 1894, Vol. 8: A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Religion of Science
IF the worship Of Truth for her own sake can be called a form of religious enthusiasm, the nineteenth century may be said to have already solved the problem of reconciling religion and science. Humboldt, Goethe, Renan, and Dar'win ventured and labored for the cause Of knowledge as much as any missionary for the cause of faith, but it may be questioned if Since the days of Voltaire any individual thinker devoted himself more successfully to the task Of carrying the torch Of truth into dark places than the self-made scholar and inde pendent investigator John Tyndall.
Like his countryman Bacon, Tyndall was an apostle of popular science. His love of truth made research its -own reward in a sense that enabled him to ignore the opposition of envy and bigotry, and he possessed in an almost unparalleled degree the gift Of interesting the masses in the results Of his inquiries. It has Often been said that Robert Ingersoll owes his popularity to his rhetorical gifts, rather than to the attractiveness Of his doctrine but let an Ingersoll or a Moody announce a lecture on such topics as Calorescence; The Transmission of Heat through Gaseous Bodies or on Sounding and Sensitive Flames, and see if they can still keep a mixed audience spellbound for hours together.
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