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Attacks, of course, continued for a considerable time, 

 some of them violent; but, to my surprise and satisfac 

 tion, when my articles were finally brought together in 

 book form, the opposition seemed to have exhausted itself. 

 There were even indications of approval in some quarters 

 where the articles composing it had previously been at 

 tacked; and I received letters thoroughly in sympathy 

 with the work from a number of eminent Christian men, 

 including several doctors of divinity, and among these 

 two bishops, one of the Anglican and one of the American 

 Episcopal Church. 



The final result was that slander against the university 

 for irreligion was confined almost entirely to very nar 

 row circles, of waning influence; and my hope is that, 

 as its formative ideas have been thus welcomed by various 

 leaders of thought, and have filtered down through the 

 press among the people at large, they have done some 

 thing to free the path of future laborers in the field of 

 science and education from such attacks as those which 

 Cornell was obliged to suffer. 



