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Science SCIENCE is simply the Latin word for knowledge. A good
deal of ingenuity has been expended in making definitions of
science which represent it as knowledge acquired by special
methods. It is not. Science is just a knowledge of things that
really exist; and, since there can be no knowledge of things
which do not exist, science is just knowledge. Every other
branch of knowledge or supposed knowledge now recognizes this by
anxiously claiming that it is "a science." Theology is, for all
its industry, not a science. There is no theology, but there are
fifty theologies. They are so many groups of entirely
contradictory speculations as to the meaning of words very
doubtfully attributed to men of the past who may never have
existed: and the words refer to what no one can prove to be
realities. There is no science of God, because God is a name for
fifty different and contradictory conceptions. Of