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…

— Andrew Dickson White

Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the…

— Andrew Dickson White

The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

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The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes…

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The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

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A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on…

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The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

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After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in…

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In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of…

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Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results.…

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He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

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