The Unity of Law - As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral Science

...hampered and hindered in its search for the truth as it exists in Nature by the restrictions that theologians have tried to impose on its investigations. But when science goes beyond its proper limits and tries to take the place of theology—treating its own understanding of the order of Nature as if it were a sufficient explanation for its cause—it invades a realm of thought to which it has no rightful claim. In doing so, it understandably triggers the hostility of those who ought to be its strongest supporters.

"While both the deep-seated instincts of humanity and the most profound philosophical research point to the mind as the one and only source of power, it is the great privilege original: "high prerogative" of science to demonstrate the unity of the power operating through the infinite extent and variety of the universe, and to trace its continuity through the vast sequence of ages involved in its evolution."