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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: coincidences which have happened in our own day on questions of
geology, biology, and astronomy; and which, when the facts have been
carefully examined, and the first flush of natural jealousy has
cooled down, have proved only that there were more wise men than one
in the world at the same time.
And this sixteenth century was an age in which the minds of men were
suddenly and strangely turned to examine the wonders of nature with
an earnestness, with a reverence, and therefore with an accuracy,
with which they had never been investigated before. "Nature," says
Professor Planchon, "long veiled in mysticism and scholasticism, was
opening up infinite vistas. A new superstition, the exaggerated
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