The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-27 00:00:00

SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION.

Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Charles
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delivered his second and concluding lecture at the
Institution. " On Sauce and Su s
audience. In his grit lecture, on
defined superstition to be fear of the behar-
powerful and eloquent discourse he shoi—red
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Ssavage man, afraid of ostpilYskeure beacause""alluisibis. Sadii"ops4l6lMrt.
her, tries to propitiate the natural epodes which ems
him persons. All superstitions, he cheerted, ,„
explained as being developments of that law,
adduced numerous illustrations in rapport
position. The second lecture, yesterday, wee devoted
the consideration of science, the great suety
superstition. As the savage is afraid of natural
from his inability to cope with them, it ray • ,
courage in those who first boldly attempted tourer
them ; and the piesent position of science is due
few brave men, who had not only to canted with
but to struggle against Public opinion. Mr. Illegds7
dbly pictured the condition of those men who we
subsiding scientific truths amidst the mspwops•
like of thew fellow-countrymen, who viewed their
with alarm, and too often stopped their career
He expressed warm admiration of the ancient Chi
who first discovered the distinction betesen the t
end the fixed stars ; and of the Greeks
Romani, who added by little end little to the •-•
knowledge, until they became frightened at the ..
their discoveries, and relapsed into a state of supsimata
little above that of the muse. He attributed much ."
stimulus to investigation in early ogee to the J
ligion and to the Hebrew writings, and briefly a..,
some of the men who, in the darkness of the middle
shone forth as the lights and were the martyrs of sr
It was not, however, until the middle of the 111th
that any solid foundation was laid for scientific
and he attributed therapid advance afterwards made
country in some measure to the foundation of
Society. Again and again in the course of his lees.
Mr. Kingsley wittimush force and animation deciann es,
those who at the present day, as well is in fender trou‘s
posed the progress of mien°e from fear of the consequese
to which it may lead, and he condemned in still now
language those who, admitting that science should
at the manse time would limit the MOW
bon of it to their own ideas of what was suitable
generality of mankind. His views of ethnic vs
comprehensive. The attainment of any new t
regarded an important advance in soirees, whit
not require a specially trained mind for its knowledge
discovery, but only theexereise of theoniinazypovenf
mind, guided by judsment and common sense. In that
he considered the writings of Mr. Carlyle as emineei/y
talc, and the knowledge of them essential to a r
tion. He took occasion, when viewing science
to denounce the existing system of educating
of both sexes in a certain routine without regard
peculiar intellectual faculties. He pointed out Vl'
force what science has already done for man, who
however, in a semi-barbarous state, and indicated
might do hereafter. Science, in Mr. Kingsley's •
is synonymous with wisdom, and he concluded
by quoting the mirage from Solomon, "
ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace," cam
to the quotation that the Creator formed the earth
knowledge, and founded the heavens with wisdom. The
language in which the lectures were written was vignie
aquent, and Mr. Kingsley delivered them with puts
energy and variety of expression, though a wromiatasr
Lion detracted from the unpredion produced on the en
became accustomed to it.

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