Excerpt from The Interpretation of Nature, Vol. 1 After consideration, I determined not to try to undertake a connected argument concerning the relations of science and religion, but rather to take up certain leading questions which have at once a relation to natural history and to theol ogy. In this presentation I approach the matter altogether from my own point of view, my aim being to show the state of mind to which the student of phenomena is brought by influences which are entirely independent of theological opinions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.