A 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’.
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a world of evolution ‘and unchanging causation’.
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Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.
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It invited new ways of thinking.
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It demanded a new rationale for belief.
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Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.
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With science’s truths the only accessible ones.
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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion.
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Never ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’.
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