Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not. Infallibility has not been granted to man. We have to make our way among pitfalls and obstacles, to make progress slowly and with difficulty, and gradually to learn what is true by finding out what is false : never learning the whole truth (for that we could not apprehend), but making our way towards the truth, in a blundering but persevering manner. The very documents to which some of the ultra-orthodox pin their faith are full of misstatements and errors committed by humanity in the past; and however full they are of inspiration (as in many parts I am sure they are, much more, as I think, than some educated people are always inclined to admit), yet they are human documents, full likewise of the mistakes, misinterpretations, slips and errors, appropriate to the human vehicles through which they have come. It is our business to try to sift the true from the false, the genuine from the mistaken, the misinterpretations of scribes, the faulty reports of occurrences, and thus to dig down to the underlying essence, which gives these documents their supreme value. so
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