Faith and Science, or How Revelation Agrees With Reason, and Assists It (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Faith and Science, or How Revelation Agrees With Reason, and Assists ItOur age has no great relish for the higher philosophical studies, and apparently no great capacity to pursue them with any marked suc cess. Its authors seek popularity, and philo Sophical studies can never be popular. Philos ophy loses in depth and solidity just in propor tion as it is taken out of the schools and submit ted to the judgment of the multitude. The re sults of the profoundest philosophy are needed by. The people and maybe given them, but never can the people be so educated as to be able to follow and understand the processes by which these results are obtained, In philosophy, as in all the Special sciences, the few must think for the many. The democratic principle is not of universal application, and truth and falsehood, any more than right [and wrong, cannot be set tled by a plurality of votes. The great want of the people, collectively as individually, is to be taught and governed. Their real good, their.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.