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cruelty is fully matched by the inhumanity of the scientist's disregard 

 for the interests of character and of the soul. So the church often 

 is inclined to charge. 



Science and the church confront each other with a mutual con- 

 tempt and even mutual hate. From the serene viewpoint which 

 history occupies we may deprecate but it is incumbent upon us to 

 understand. For this mutual lack of sympathy is the cause of the 

 acrimony of the struggle whose sources we are considering. 



President Hyde says somewhere that the warfare between science 

 and theology is over: its history has been written. We fear that we 

 can agree with neither proposition. 



The divergence in interest between science and religion, the differ- 

 ence in the logical method of their thought, are inherent and per- 

 manent differences. The mistaken identification of reUgious beliefs 

 with the conceptions in which they are embodied is so natural that it 

 is not likely to disappear for a long time to come. We fear that the 

 old antagonism will be ever cropping out anew for many a year. 



Nor can we regard, with President Hyde, Dr. White's two valuable 

 volumes' as the final history of the great warfare. Dr. White views 

 the conflict from only one side. He never forgets the ecclesiastical 

 persecution to which Cornell University was subjected when he took 

 charge of it. It seems a presumptuous thing to say of so great a his- 

 torian, but Dr. White in his book displays Httle insight into the nature 

 and history of Christian doctrine. He dwells at length upon the mar- 

 tyrdoms of science and the stupidity of the church. We gain from 

 his book no sense of the embarrassments which science has caused the 

 church. 



Sometime, we hope, there will be written a new history of the 

 warfare of science with theology in Christendom. That history, when 

 it is written, will begin by setting forth the ideas which the apostles 

 held and taught and show why they were a gospel, what their value 

 was and why the promulgation of them brought new life to those who 



' To which this paper is indebted for many of its Quotations and illustrations. 



