It invited new ways of thinking.
ADRIAN DESMONDIt invited new ways of thinking.
ADRIAN DESMONDPerhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion.
ADRIAN DESMONDWith science’s truths the only accessible ones.
ADRIAN DESMONDa world of evolution ‘and unchanging causation’.
ADRIAN DESMONDIt demanded a new rationale for belief.
ADRIAN DESMONDNever ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’.
ADRIAN DESMONDDissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.
ADRIAN DESMONDScience was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.
ADRIAN DESMONDA man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.
ADRIAN DESMOND