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gested more than one book to younger scholars as, for example, 

 the excellent study of Mr. Lewis Rosen thai on America and 

 France. The Manual of Historical Literature which Mr. White 

 had proposed as a joint task to his pupil and successor, Prof. 

 Charles Kendall Adams, had finally to be worked out alone by 

 the latter. It is, indeed, as an inspirer of books that his activity 

 has been greatest. Yet he has remained himself a wide reader 

 and a tireless student ; and not alone the addresses and magazine 

 articles in which he has brought to bear so tellingly upon a host 

 of present-day problems the fruits of a ripe historical scholar- 

 ship, but at least one book of serious proportions will attest the 

 quality of his work. 



This book, so many of whose chapters are familiar to the 

 readers of the Popular Science Monthly, is his Warfare of Science, 

 or, to give it its full title, his History of the Warfare of Science 

 with Theology in Christendom. It was in the troublous early 

 days of Cornell, when the nonsectarian character of the uni- 

 versity was bringing it from its rivals on every side the charge of 

 godlessness, and when Mr. Cornell and Mr. White himself were 

 rewarded for their labors by such epithets as infidel and atheist 

 and by the suspicion of good Christian people everywhere, that it 

 first occurred to him to find comfort and assurance in the study 

 of this stage in the history of all the great intellectual movements 

 through which civilization has been won. From its earliest form, 

 as a mere lecture in 1875, it has grown through twenty years to 

 the two stately volumes now about to be published. In the 

 gathering of its materials, scattered over almost the whole terri- 

 tory of human knowledge, Mr. White has known how to use the 

 aid from time to time of sundry helpers ; but even in this pre- 

 liminary labor his own immediate share has far outweighed all 

 others, and in the digestion and interpretation of his materials no 

 other hand was ever given a part. Clear as is his statement of 

 its thesis, few books have suffered such mis judgment from care- 

 less or unkindly critics. What interested him was never the 

 opinions, normal or abnormal, of forgotten theologians ; but their 

 interferences, in the mistaken interest of religion, with that free- 

 dom of thought and research out of which alone science can 

 grow. Nor was he actuated by any hostility to religion. A man 

 of profoundly religious nature, impatient of irreverence of any 

 kind, and deeply attached to the Christian communion in which 

 he was reared, he seeks only to lift the timid faith which dares 

 not trust the God of the universe to deal truly with the human 

 mind he has made to the loftier conviction that in his own noble 

 words " there is a God in this universe wise enough to make all 

 truth- seeking safe, and good enough to make all truth- telling 

 useful." 



