Personified Science

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthropomorphised

into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon

him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into

the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn

people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our

ignorance of our own ignorance.

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