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1Author:  Cooke, Josiah ParsonsAdd
 Title:  Religion and Chemistry  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE time has been when the Christian Church was an active antagonist of physical science; when the whole hierarchy of Rome united to condemn its results and to resist its progress; when the immediate reward of great discoveries was obloquy and persecution. But all this has passed. The age of dogmatism has gone, and an age of general scepticism has succeeded. The power of traditional authority has given place to the power of ideas, and physical science, which before hardly dared to assert its birthright, and could even be forced to recant, on its knees, its demonstrated truths, has now become one of the rulers of society. By its rapid growth, by its conquests over brute matter, and by its wonderful revelations, it has deservedly gained the highest respect of man, while by multiplying and diffusing the comforts of life it has become his acknowledged friend. Every effort is now made to further its progress. Its great discoveries win the applause of nations, and its fortunate students are remembered when the princes and nobles of the earth are forgotten.
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