Excerpt from Williams Literary Monthly, Vol. 14: May, 1898 There has always been a feeling that the natural sciences are gradually despiritualizing our conception of the universe. This has expressed itself among conservative thinkers in vio lent, and often unreasoning, attacks against the new theories and their authors. Even with the more liberal minded it has not been absent. It has influenced literature. And the bewail ing of lost illusions has been a constant theme for the minor poet. The currency of the phrase, the conflict between sci ence and religion, evidences its prevalence; and also, quite as much, the mass of apologetical literature, itself, which has endeavored to show that no such conflict exists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.