History of the Warfare of Science with Theology (3 Vol.)

At last, out of the old conception of our Bible as a collection of oracles – a mass of entangling utterances, fruitful in wrangling interpretations, which have given to the world long and weary ages of 'hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness'; of fetichism, subtlety, and pomp; of tyranny bloodshed, and solemnly constituted imposture; of everything which the Lord Jesus Christ most abhorred – has been gradually developed through the centu-ries, by the labours, sacrifices, and even the martyrdom of a long succession of men of God, the conception of it as a sacred literature – a growth only possible under that divine light which the various orbs of science have done so much to bring into the mind and heart and soul of man – a revelation, not of the Fall of Man, but of the Ascent of Man – an exposition, not of temporary dogmas and ob-servances, but of the Eternal Law of Righteousness – the one up-ward path for individuals and for nations. No longer an oracle, good for the 'lower orders' to accept, but to be quietly sneered at by 'the enlightened' – no longer a fetich, whose defenders must be persecuters, or reconcilers, or 'apologists'; but a most fruitful fact, which religion and science may accept as a source of strength to both."
3 volumes, 15 x 21 cm, 1.000 pgs