Adrian Desmond Quotes

A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.
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Anything Before Got Heard Little Man Men Semon Thinking
With science’s truths the only accessible ones.
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Accessible One Only Science Truth
Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.
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Christianity Day Dissolving Dross Encrusted Ignorance Superstition
Never ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’.
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Bever Creed Dim Science Little Mere Seem Vast
It invited new ways of thinking.
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Invited Method New Thinking Trait Way
Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.
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Cosmos Ecclesiastical Fine Science Spun Tearing Thinking Through World
It demanded a new rationale for belief.
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Better Demanded For New Rational
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion.
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Caryle Greatest Lesson Perhaps Reading Real Religion Thinking
a world of evolution ‘and unchanging causation’.
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Causation Evolution Unchanging World