Verity's friends. It is impossible
to comprehend what is meant by such a statement as that every
truth is somehow connected with religion. It may be
that the notion--if it really is not, as I suspect it to be, mere
verbiage and clap-trap, used by certain fools to mislead
others--means that there is some such coherency between all
truths as there is, for instance, between the elements of the
body. I would admit that, but is not blood a different and
perfectly severable thing from bone? Each has its place, office,
relation. But who would say that one could not be regarded by a
physicist in the largest variety of its aspects apart from the
other? Yet the physicist comes back again to consider with
respect to each its relations to all the rest! The separate
study has rather prepared him for more profound insight into
those relations. Thus it is with the body of truth. In spite of
Mr. Verity I affirm that there are truths that have not in
themselves any element of religion whatever. The forty-seventh
proposition of Euclid will be taught by a Jesuit precisely as it
is taught in the London University; geography will affirm certain
principles and designate places, rivers, mountains--that no faith
can remove and cast into unknown seas.
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