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HISTORY OF THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE WITH THEOLOGY
IN CHRISTENDOM
BY ANDREW DICKSON WHITE
TWO VOLUMES COMBINED
To the Memory of
EZRA CORNELL I DEDICATE THIS BOOK.

Thoughts that great hearts once broke for, we
Breathe cheaply in the common air.--LOWELL
Dicipulus est prioris posterior dies.--PUBLIUS SYRUS
Truth is the daughter of Time.--BACON The Truth shall make you
free.--ST. JOHN, viii, 32.

INTRODUCTION My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this
preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on
the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel they are letting the
rays of the April sun into the great ice barrier which binds together the

modern quays and the old granite fortress where lie the bones of the
Romanoff Czars.
This barrier is already weakened; it is widely decayed, in many places
thin, and everywhere treacherous; but it is, as a whole, so broad, so
crystallized about old boulders, so imbedded in shallows, so wedged
into crannies on either shore, that it is a great danger. The waters from
thousands of swollen streamlets above are pressing behind it; wreckage
and refuse are piling up against it; every one knows that it must yield.
But there is danger that it may resist the pressure too long and break
suddenly, wrenching even the granite quays from their foundations,
bringing desolation to a vast population, and leaving, after the
subsidence of the flood, a widespread residue of slime, a fertile
breeding-bed for the germs of disease.
But the patient mujiks are doing the right thing. The barrier, exposed
more and more to the warmth of spring by the scores of channels they
are making, will break away gradually, and the river will flow on
beneficent and beautiful.
My work in this book is like that of the Russian mujik on the Neva. I
simply try to aid in letting the light of historical truth into that decaying
mass of outworn thought which attaches the modern world to
mediaeval conceptions of Christianity, and which still lingers among
us--a most serious barrier to religion and morals, and a menace to the
whole normal evolution of society.
For behind this barrier also the flood is rapidly rising --the flood of
increased knowledge and new thought; and this barrier also, though
honeycombed and in many places thin, creates a danger--danger of a
sudden breaking away, distressing and calamitous, sweeping before it
not only out worn creeds and noxious dogmas, but cherished principles
and ideals, and even wrenching out most precious religious and moral
foundations of the whole social and political fabric.
My hope is to aid--even if it be but a little--in the gradual and healthful
dissolving away of this mass of unreason, that the stream of "religion
pure and undefiled" may flow on broad and clear, a blessing to
humanity.
And now a few words regarding the evolution of this book.
It is something over a quarter of a century since I labored with Ezra
Cornell in founding the university which bears his honored name.

Our purpose was to establish in the State of New York an institution for
advanced instruction and research, in which science, pure and applied,
should have an equal place with literature; in which the study of
literature, ancient and modern, should be emancipated as much as
possible from pedantry; and which should be free from various useless
trammels and vicious methods which at that period hampered many, if
not most, of the American universities and colleges.
We had especially determined that the institution should be under the
control of no political party and of no single religious sect, and with Mr.
Cornell's approval I embodied stringent provisions to this effect in the
charter.
It had certainly never entered into the mind of either of us that in all
this we were doing anything irreligious or unchristian. Mr. Cornell was
reared a member of the Society of Friends; he had from his fortune