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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: for the establishment of Darwinism. It is the merest truism to
say that religion strikes its roots deeper down into human nature
than speculative opinion, and is accordingly independent of any
particular set of beliefs. Since, then, the scientific innovator
does not, either voluntarily or involuntarily, attack religion,
it follows that there can be no such "conflict" as that of which
Dr. Draper has undertaken to write the history. The real contest
is between one phase of science and another; between the
more-crude knowledge of yesterday and the less-crude knowledge of
to-day. The contest, indeed, as presented in history, is simply
the measure of the difficulty which men find in exchanging old
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