A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
by
ANDREW DICKSON WHITE
LL.D. (Yale), L.H.D. (Columbia), PH.DR. (Jena)
Late President and Professor of History at Cornell University
New York
D. Appleton and Company 1898 Copyright, 1896 By D. Appleton and Company.
I Dedicate this Book To the Memory of EZRA CORNELL
Thoughts that great hearts once broke for, we
Breathe cheaply in the common air. - Lowell
Dicipulus est prioris posterior dies. - Publius Syrus. Truth is the daughter of Time. Bacon
The Truth shall make you free. St. John, viii, 32.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION.
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.