[Is Life Worth Living? by William Hurrell Mallock]@TWC D-Link bookIs Life Worth Living? CHAPTER IX 58/61
They are asked, have we a soul, a will, and consequently any moral responsibility? And the answer is that they must shake their heads in doubt.
It is true they tell us that it is but _as men of science_ that they shake their heads.
But Dr.Tyndall tells us what this admission means.
'_If the materialist is confounded_,' he says, '_and science rendered dumb_, who else is prepared with an answer? _Let us lower our heads and acknowledge our ignorance, priest and philosopher--one and all._' In like manner, referring to the feeling which others have supposed to be a sense of God's presence and majesty: this, for the '_man of science_,' he says is the sense of a '_power which gives fulness and force, to his existence, but which he can neither analyse nor comprehend_.' Which means, that because a physical specialist cannot analyse this sense, it is therefore incapable of analysis.
A bishop might with equal propriety use just the same language about a glass of port wine, and argue with, equal cogency that it was a primary and simple element.
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