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> [Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/aristotle-especially-both-by-speculation-and-observation-reached/)

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## More by Andrew Dickson White

> [ The young man \[Turgot\] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/the-young-man-turgot-destined-for-an-ecclesiastical-career-was-placed/)

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> [Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/just-as-the-line-of-astronomical-thinkers-from-copernicus-to-newton/)

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> [The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/the-inquiry-into-nature-having-thus-been-pursued-nearly-two-thousand/)

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> [ This whole theory \[of John Law and Jean Terrasson\], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/this-whole-theory-of-john-law-and-jean-terrasson-as-dear-to-french/)

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> [“The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/the-great-curse-of-theology-and-ecclesiasticisim-has-always-been/)

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> [Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/even-before-melanchthon-sank-into-his-grave-he-was-dismayed-at-seeing/)

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> [My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/my-early-years-abroad-were-spent-mainly-upon-the-european-continent/)

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> [Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/carlyle-uttered-a-pregnant-truth-when-he-said-that-the-history-of-any/)

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> [ “\[Cornell University will be\] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/cornell-university-will-be-an-asylum-for-science-where-truth-shall-be/)

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> [I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/i-will-not-permit-thirty-men-to-travel-four-hundred-miles-to-agitate/)

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> [In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/in-all-modern-history-interference-with-science-in-the-supposed/)

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> [For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/for-similar-folly-our-own-country-in-the-transition-from-the-colonial/)

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> [Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/aristotle-especially-both-by-speculation-and-observation-reached/)

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> [ His \[Turgot's\] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/his-turgot-s-first-important-literary-and-scholastic-effort-was-a/)

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> [“Living in filth was regarded by great numbers of holy men, who set an example to the Church and to society, as an evidence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/living-in-filth-was-regarded-by-great-numbers-of-holy-men-who-set-an/)

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