Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that the visible universe was formed by an Intelligence residing in the Unseen, and acting through conceivable processes while developing that which we see around us ? Dr. Hermann Stoffkraft.—What a singular Being—what an unlikely existence! I enter- tain an invincible repugnance to believe in such a development, and should very much prefer what you are pleased to call a dead develop- ment. Elijah Holdfast.—This won’t do, Doctor. An ‘ invincible repugnance' to a doctrine is very closely allied to an ‘ assurance that it is untrue.’ Both are, to my mind at least, essen- tially unscientific. For a man of science ought, I think, to be perfectly willing and ready to receive whatever is sufficiently demonstrated, and to take to avizandum all that is plausible :— his own feelings and prepossessions notwith- standing. How is knowledge to advance if your school have an invincible repugnance to a living development, while our host and the parson and their school have an equally uncon-
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