Silent DNA

[Terrance]

http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/pearson.html

Terrance wrote:
> 
> The Church alone had constantly protested that anarchy was
> not order, that Satan was not God, that pantheism was worse
> than atheism, and that
> Unity could not be proved as a contradiction. Karl Pearson
> seemed to agree with
> the Church, but every one else, including Newton, Darwin and
> Clerk Maxwell, had
> sailed gaily into the supersensual, calling it: --
> 
>     "One God, one Law, one Element,
>       And one far-off, divine event,
>       To which the whole creation moves."
> 
> Suddenly, in 1900, science raised its head and denied.
> 
> English thought had always been chaos and multiplicity
> itself, in which the new step
> of Karl Pearson marked only a consistent progress; but
> German thought had
> affected system, unity, and abstract truth, to a point that
> fretted the most patient
> foreigner,