LITTLE temporal power there was no hope. The prisons were 

 JOURNEYS first made for those who doubted the priest ; behind 



and beneath every episcopal residence w^ere dungeons; 

 the ferocious and delicate tortures that reached every 

 physical and mental nerve -were his. His anathemas 

 and curses w^ere always quickly turned upon the strong 

 men of mountain or sea who dared live natural lives, 

 said what they thought was truth, or did what they 

 deemed was right. 



Science is a search for truth, but theology is a clutch 

 for pow^er. 



Nothing was so distasteful to a priest as freedom — a 

 happy, exuberant, fearless, radiant and self-sufficient 

 man he both feared and abhorred. A free soul was re- 

 garded by the Church as one to be dealt with. The 

 priest has ever put a premium on pretense and hy- 

 pocrisy. Nothing recommended a man more than 

 humility and the acknowledgment that he was a w^orm 

 of the dust. The ability to do and dare were in them- 

 selves considered proof of depravity. The education of 

 the young has been monopolized by priests in order to 

 perpetuate the fallacies of theology, and all endeavor 

 to put education on a footing of usefulness and utility 

 has been fought inch by inch. 



Andrew D. White, in his book, "The Warfare of 

 Science and Religion," has calmly and without heat 

 sketched the war that Science has had to make to 

 reach the light. Slo-wly, stubbornly, insolently the- 

 ology has fought Truth step by step — but always re- 

 treating, taking refuge first behind one subterfuge, then 

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