“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.”

— John Burroughs

Source: The Light of Day (1900), Ch. III: Science and Theology

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American naturalist and essayist 1837–1921

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