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THIS small book displays the author's outstanding skill in the popular exposition of abstruse subjects. The earlier half of it is historical, dealing with the past relations between ecclesiastical Christianity and the natural sciences, and contains a depressing record of bigotry and cruelty; though we are warned that “the threat to intellectual freedom is greater in our day than at any time since 1660”—a threat which no longer comes from the Churches.
Religion and Science
By Bertrand Russell. (Home University Library of Modem Knowledge, No. 178.) Pp. 256. (London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1935.) 2s. 6d. net.
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H., J. Religion and Science. Nature 137, 92 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137092a0
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