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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: the human race more than any thousand men who have read, or written
either, a thousand books apiece, but have not dared to think for
themselves. And better for his race, and better, I believe, in the
sight of God, the confusions and mistakes of that one sincere brave
man, than the second-hand and cowardly correctness of all the
thousand.
As for the "triumphs of science," let us honour, with astonishment
and awe, the genius of those who invented them; but let us remember
that the things themselves are as a gun or a sword, with which we
can kill our enemy, but with which also our enemy can kill us. Like
all outward and material things, they are equally fit for good and
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