/ 



LITTLE This was the general attitude of the Church exact 

 JOURNEYS truth was a matter of indifference. And if science 

 tended to unseat men's faith in the Bible, and in God's 

 holy religion, then so much worse for the science. 

 It will thus plainly be seen why the Church felt 

 compelled to fight science the very life of the Church 

 was at stake. The Church was the vital thing not 

 truth. If truth could be taught without unseating 

 faith, why, all right, but anything that made men doubt 

 must be rooted out at any cost. And that is why priests 

 have opposed Science, not that they hate Science less, 

 but that they love the Church more. 

 From the time of Ptolemy to that of Copernicus 

 fourteen hundred years theology practically dictated 

 the learning of the world. And to Copernicus must be 

 given the credit of having awakened the science of 

 astronomy from her long sleep. 



'HE little land that we know as Poland has 

 produced some of the finest and most 

 acute intellects the world has ever known. 

 Tragic and blood-stained is her history, 

 and this tragedy, perhaps, has been a 

 prime factor in the evolution of her men 

 of worth. Poland has been stamped upon and pushed 

 apart ; and a persecuted people always produce a pride 

 of race that has its outcrop in occasional genius. 

 Recently we have heard of Paderewski playing be- 

 fore the Czar, and His Majesty, in a speech meant to 

 12 



