The result has been a blessing both to
science and to religion. No harm has been done to religion; what
has been done is to release it from the clog of theories which
thinking men saw could no longer be maintained. No matter what
has become of the naming of the animals by Adam, of the origin of
the name Babel, of the fear of the Almighty lest men might climb
up into his realm above the firmament, and of the confusion of
tongues and the dispersion of nations; the essentials of
Christianity, as taught by its blessed Founder, have simply been
freed, by Comparative Philology, from one more great incubus, and
have therefore been left to work with more power upon the hearts
and minds of mankind.
Nor has any harm been done to the Bible. On the contrary,
this divine revelation through science has made it all the more
precious to us. In these myths and legends caught from earlier
civilizations we see an evolution of the most important religious
and moral truths for our race. Myth, legend, and parable seem, in
obedience to a divine law, the necessary setting for these
truths, as they are successively evolved, ever in higher and
higher forms.
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