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Excerpt from Lectures on Man: His Place in Creation, and in the History of the Earth
Nor do I think it necessary here to advance my own views respecting some Anthropological questions upon which this work treats. I need only say that I am willing to accept such of the facts as shall on future inquiry prove to be true. Possibly, no man will agree with all the conclusions arrived at by Professor Vogt, but I am quite ready to accept such of his Opinions as can be logically deduced from well-ascertained facts.
While, however, I hold both myself and the society entirely free from any responsibility as to the author's asserted facts or deductions, I should not be doing my duty as Editor if I were not to make some excuse for the attacks made by him on theological dogmas. In Germany men of science and theologians look upon one another with a mutual contempt, while in this country scientific men entertain respect for theologians, and the latter fortunately have a profound admiration for students of science, and (when properly educated) have not the effrontery to combat the teachings of pure inductive science. In Germany, too, science is used as a political engine to overthrow the arrogant assumptions of kingcraft and priestcraft, from the evil influence of which we now in England suffer little.
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