Abstract
IT is pleasant to find in a book which seeks to deal from the religious standpoint with the relations between religion and science, a full and candid recognition of the claims of natural knowledge. The author of the present volume, whose qualities would no doubt have carried him far had he chosen the field of scientific research for the exercise of his chief activity, has not forgotten his early training. We should not expect from Father Waggett, nor do we find, the least attempt to blink or to minimise the results of scientific investigation in any department of learning. “Religion,” as he says, “can have no possible interest in believing what is not true”; nor, it may be added, can religion afford to ignore what is true, from whatever quarter the demonstration of truth may arrive.
Religion and Science: Some Suggestions for the Study of the Relations Between Them.
By P. N. Waggett Pp. xii + 174. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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D., F. Religion and Science: Some Suggestions for the Study of the Relations Between Them . Nature 70, 197 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070197a0
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