You Gentiles
spiritual purposes. The truths which are unveiled by the scientific method, and which it is the special aptness of this method to unveil, do not matter to anybody.
Science teaches us that the earth goes around the sun, rather than the sun round the earth. Does it really matter which is the case? Science teaches us that the occasional retrogression effect in the observed motion of the planets is not due to "cycle in epicycle, orb in orb," but to changes of perspective produced along the plane of the ecliptic during the revolutions of the planets round the sun. Well, what of it? It has revealed the fact that certain diseases are due to the action of minute parasites; that there is a marvelous structural parallel between man and the beasts; that forms of energy are interchangeable; that the earth is extremely old; that there were other forms of life on the planet before us; that we are merely a point in space. All this is accurate: but is it of any importance?
I ignore, of course, the obvious advantages
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