A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by M. B. Carpenter

1 quotation from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

But when science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of theology, and sets up its own conception of the order of nature as a sufficient account of its cause, it is invading a province of thought to which it has no claim, and not unreasonably provokes the hostility of its best friends.— filed under Science
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