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the populous centres. But there was .no safety for 

 such men till the seventeenth century. Still the work 

 went on with increasing numbers and greater bold- 

 ness. Learned societies were established on a larger 

 scale, and more openly. The intellectual element had 

 become uncontrollable. 



The Academia Secretomm Nature? was founded at 

 Naples in 1560; the Lyncean Academy in Rome, 

 1603; the Royal Society, London, 1645; the Accadcmia 

 del Cimcnto, Florence, 1657 ; Royal Academy of Sci- 

 ences, Paris, 1666. These and many other learned 

 societies were all organized on the Greek models. 

 Only the Greek methods have ever produced such 

 men as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Napier, 

 and Lavoisier. These and other illustrious names 

 were the peers of Archimedes, Ptolemy, Apollonius, 

 Euclid, Aristotle, and Hero. 



Historians have never given due credit to the 

 Arabians for what they did in the darkest part of the 

 dark ages to save the results of Greek civilization 

 from oblivion. National vanity and a difference in 

 race and religion explain their treatment in Christian 

 Europe. But their religion led them to be temperate 

 in all things, tolerant, kind and true to all men. It 

 led them to cultivate neatness, elegance, courage, 

 chivalry, justice, and personal honor. But all Europe 

 combined to destroy them. Each century diminished 

 the Arabian territory, and what could not be done by 



