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tainly exists between all true scientific facts and 

 the teachings of the Church. If the latter can 

 not possibly be brought into harmony with theo 

 ries that lack all proof and probability, and which 

 in many cases are philosophical absurdities, why 

 blame Christianity? 



To set aside, however, with finality, the old 

 falsehood of a conflict between religion and sci 

 ence, which many still insist upon by their recom 

 mendation of such unhistorical and absolutely un 

 reliable authors as Draper, White, or Haeckel 

 the latter in particular where he touches upon 

 the subject of Christianity it may be well to be 

 gin by quoting the following list, far from ex 

 haustive, of some of the greatest modern scien 

 tists, who were all not merely Christians, but sons 

 of that ancient Church which has come down to 

 ys from apostolic days: 



Ampere, electrician, physicist, mathematician; Bedford, 

 founder of University Medical College; Cassini, discoverer of 

 four of Saturn s satellites; Cauchy, inventor of the &quot;Calculus 

 of Residues&quot;; Cavalieri, originator of the &quot;Method of Indivi 

 sibles&quot;; Colombo, discoverer of pulmonary circulation; Divisch, 

 first to erect the lightning-rod; Eustachius, one of the greatest 

 anatomists; Fallopio, also immortal among anatomists; Fizeau, 

 first to determine velocity of light; Foucault, demonstrator of 

 earth s rotation by pendulum; Fraunhofer, the originator of 

 spectrum analysis; Fresnel, famous for his inventions in optics; 

 Galvani, whose name is identified with electricity; Grimaldi, 

 forerunner of Newton and Huyghens ; Gusmao, naturalist and 

 first asronaut; Halloy, Belgian pioneer geologist; Haiiy, father 

 of modern crystallography; Laennec, celebrated pioneer in med 

 icine; Lamarck, zoologist and natural philosopher; Laplace, 



