CHAPTER IV. 



RESUMING the history of events, we find that early 

 in the year 1632 the printing of the Dialogue was 

 completed. The author caused some copies to be 

 bound and gilt and sent to Rome. It was not easy to 

 pass them, on account of the quarantine ; yet some 

 amongst them found their way, and great was the 

 sensation caused in the ecclesiastical world by their 

 appearance. 



There were a few admirers of Galileo who approved 

 warmly ; but there was the School of Aristotle, as in 

 these enlightened days there is the School of Darwin,* 

 and they could not bear that anything should be pub- 

 lished reflecting on the scientific infallibility of their 

 great philosopher. Thus we find that Father Scheiner, 

 writing to Gassendi, observed that Galileo had 

 written his work " contra communem Peripateticorum 

 Scholam." 



The agitation against the book was successful, and 

 a report arose forthwith that it would be condemned. 

 The report was no mere canard, as the subsequent 



* It is not intended to imply that these two Schools of thought 

 stand on anything like the same scientific level. 



