“A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.” MenViewsAtheismDivineDevelopmentIntellectualPositive AtheismImprovementRevelationsContradictionProgressiveDisdainDivine RevelationIntellectual Development Book:History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ... Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...
“In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.” MenWorldLittlesImportantCountryFightingFoundBeliefGivenStruggleWrittenAtheismMoralityEnglandPositive AtheismHypocrisyWorking ItItalianSkepticismLecturesOrthodoxyConcealedInsincerityImportant WorkExasperation Author:John William Draper
“The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.” MenNatureStudyConditionsIntellectualConception Book:History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
“Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .” MenYearsHumansBornRaceFourInfluenceHe ManIslamHuman RaceFour YearsArabiaMeccaJustinian Author:John William Draper
