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THE Cardiff meeting of the British Association will be marked with a red stone in the road of progress because of two noteworthy events. One was the suggestion of the president, Prof. W. A. Herdman, eagerly taken up by members of the Association, that the time had come for a new Challenger expedition for the exploration of the oceans, and another was the enlightened sermon, which we print in full elsewhere, delivered by Canon E. W. Barnes, a distinguished mathematician who is both a fellow of the Royal Society and a Canon of Westminster. We do not hesitate to say that not for a long time has such a conciliatory attitude been presented to men of science by a leader in the Church as is represented by Canon Barnes's address. The position taken up in it is one upon which the two standards of science and religion can be placed side by side to display to the world their unity of purpose. For Science and Religion are twin sisters, each studying her own sacred book of God and building a structure which remains sure only when established upon the foundation of truth.
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The Unity of Science and Religion. Nature 106, 1–2 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106001a0
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