Note 224 — VIII THE INFLUENCE OF DARWIN UPON RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
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The scientific rank of its writer justifies the insertion of the following letter from the late Sir John Burdon-Sanderson to me. In the lecture referred to I had described the methods of Professor Moseley in teaching Biology as affording a suggestion of the scientific treatment of religion.
Oxford,
April 30, 1902.
Dear Sir:
I feel that I must express to you my thanks for the discourse which I had the pleasure of listening to yesterday afternoon.
I do not mean to say that I was able to follow all that you said as to the identity of Method in the two fields of Science and Religion, but I recognise that the "mysticism" of which you spoke gives us the only way by which the two fields can be brought into relation.
Among much that was memorable, nothing interested me more than what you said of Moseley.
No one, I am sure, knew better than you the value of his teaching and in what that value consisted.
Yours faithfully,
J. BURDON-SANDERSON.