Adrian Desmond Quotes
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
![Adrian Desmond Quotes: "Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations338/Perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-Huxley-learned-from-338244.jpg)
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
![Adrian Desmond Quotes: "A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations338/A-man-got-up-after-one-of-338245.jpg)
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.