History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

By White, Andrew Dickson

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Title:	History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Author:	White, Andrew Dickson
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt
INTRODUCTION: My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel they are letting the rays of the April sun into the great ice barrier which binds together the modern quays and the old granite fortress where lie the bones of the Romanoff Czars. This barrier is already weakened; it is widely decayed, in many places thin, and everywhere treacherous; but it is, as a whole, so broad, so crystallized about old boulders, so imbedded in shallows, so wedged into crannies on either shore, that it is a great danger. The waters from thousands of swollen streamlets above are pressing behind it; wreckage and refuse are piling up against it; every one knows that it must yield. But there is danger that it may resist the pressure too long and break suddenly, wrenching even the granite quays from their foundations, bringing desolation to a vast population, and leaving, after the subsidence of the flood, a widespread residue of slime, a fertile breeding-bed for the germs of disease.

Table of Contents
· INTRODUCTION · CHAPTER I. · CHAPTER II. GEOGRAPHY. · CHAPTER III. ASTRONOMY. · CHAPTER IV. FROM SIGNS AND WONDERS TO LAW IN THE HEAVENS. · CHAPTER V. FROM GENESIS TO GEOLOGY. · CHAPTER VI. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN EGYPTOLOGY, AND ASSYRIOLOGY. · CHAPTER VII. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN AND PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY · CHAPTER VIII. THE FALL OF MAN AND ANTHROPOLOGY · CHAPTER IX. THE FALL OF MAN AND ETHNOLOGY. · CHAPTER X. THE FALL OF MAN AND HISTORY. · CHAPTER XI. FROM THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR TO METEOROLOGY · CHAPTER XII. FROM MAGIC TO CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. · CHAPTER XIII. FROM MIRACLES TO MEDICINE. · CHAPTER XIV. FROM FETICH TO HYGIENE. · CHAPTER XV. FROM DEMONIACAL POSSESSION TO INSANITY. · CHAPTER XVI. FROM DIABOLISM TO HYSTERIA. · CHAPTER XVII. FROM BABEL TO COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. · CHAPTER XVIII. FROM THE DEAD SEA LEGENDS TO COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY, · CHAPTER XIX. FROM LEVITICUS TO POLITICAL ECONOMY · CHAPTER XX. FROM THE DIVINE ORACLES TO THE HIGHER CRITICISM.