Robert Green Ingersoll”įaith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible They are the children of freedom, the gifts of reason, observation and experience-and for them all, man is indebted to man. They were not discovered by the closed eyes of prayer, nor did they come in answer to superstitious supplication. ![]() They were not found in cathedrals or behind altars-neither were they searched for with holy candles. These benefits did not drop from the outstretched hands of priests. ![]() These blessings did not fall from the skies. There is more of value in the brain of an average man of to-day-of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four hundred years ago. But above and over all this, is the development of mind. Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times. The day of Science dawned, and the luxuries of a century ago are the necessities of to-day. The poor were clad in rags and skins-they devoured crusts, and gnawed bones. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. ![]() “We have already compared the benefits of theology and science.
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