We should endow neither; we should treat them as we treat conservatism
and liberalism, encouraging both, so that they may keep watch upon one
another, and letting them go in and out of power with the popular vote
concerning them.
The world is better carried on upon the barrister principle of special
pleading upon two sides before an impartial ignorant tribunal, to whom
things have got to be explained, than it would be if nobody were to
maintain any opinion in which he did not personally believe.
What we want is to reconcile both science and theology with sincerity and
good breeding, to make our experts understand that they are nothing if
they are not single-minded and urbane. Get them to understand this, and
there will be no difficulty about reconciling science and theology.