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