New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-18

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even this does end the war Many earnest ana goou
men oppose the doctrine for two hundred years oge
Of degrees In Equatorial and Polar regions aud add 10
other proofs that OF the heightened penauIun. Will
this was done; whom the deductions OF science were
seen IN he abshed by the simple test OF measurement
beautifully perfectly them and then only TINS war Vi
HpS now what was tho result Of this wari The
efforts OF Eusebus and Iactantius to deaden scen
tine modes ~ tbe eSsrts Of Cosmas to stop it by
docmatlsm the efforts Of Bonlface and Zachary ana
had resulted In what simply in forcing into many noble
minds that most unfortunate conviction tbat science ana
gon hosts OF the best men in all those centuries Inc
result was wholly bad No optimism can Gha9gs 'haI
warriors Of science for reicon3 Simply far more emo
bling conception of the world and FAR rner conception
tanned it, Which Is the more consist nt with a great,
true religion, the cosmography Of Cosmas or that OF
ASTRONOMY.
The next great battles TO which ask your attention
were fought on question relating 10 the position Of
the earth among TIE heareniy bodies The struggle
regarding geography, which have already pre-
sented was entangled with this. often the Same
field the battle fought for both but separate them
that we may see each clearly On one side tho
great body Of conscientious religious planted them
selves firmly the Geocentro dOctrine-tho doctrine
that the earth the center and that the sun and planets
revOlve about it, The doctrine was old ana OF inc hS
est respectabilty The very name, Ptoiemac theory
carried weight IL had been elaborated until II accounted
Scripture cherished it for 1t agreed with what they
supposed the reading Of sacred text. Still the germs OF
a nG we Wanted Il had seemed ready even 70 bloom
forth the mind Of Cardinal de Cusa, but the chill OF
Mug of tho sixteenth century there had come 10 TINS
great truth neither bloom nor frutage. Qmeuyi now
ever the soil was receiving enrichment and the AR
warmth. The processes OF mathematics were constantly
improved, the heavenly bodies were steadily though
the centers of thought the borders OF Poanda plain
supplemented scholar, who first fairly uttered TO the
ia
ng-that the and planets do not reyove about tho
earth but that the earth planets revoye about the
sun and That man was Nicolas Kopernk. Kopernk had
been professor at Rome, nut as TINS tiuth grew Wltnh
him he seemed 10 feel that at Rome he was no longer
slfe Returning his country he ound IL wretch.
eiy inhosptable but he thought on, and that great
central truth OF Astronomy developed IN his NINA
ever more and more. To publish It was danger
GUS indeed, and for thrtysiN years 10 lay slunDer-
ing in the minds OF Kopernik ana tue friends 10 whom
he had privately mtrusted it, At last be prepares his
great work on the Revolution OF ne Heavenly bodies,
and dedicates IT TO the Pope himself me w0lk wac III
trusted 10 the scholar Islander OF Nuremberg 10 supen
courage Of Islander failed him. He dared not launch the
new thought boldly. He writes grOyellg preface
endeayoTs TO excuse kopernk Tor ms novel lGea ne ne
inserts the apologize lie that kOpeTk prolOuHd5 te
doctrine the movement OF the earth not as de put
as hypothesis He declares that 1t Is lawful for an
astronomer to indulge his imagination and that TINS s
what KOperuik has done. Thus was the greatest anu
less ennoDling to Religion 10 science-forced, in
coming into the world, TO sneak and crawl
arrived at the OF kOpernk. IL was put into his
hands but he on his death.bed few hours later
conscences would have boted his reputation and per-
haps have destroyed his life Yet not wholly beyond their
reach Even death could not be trusted 20 shield him.
There 90 have been fear OF vengeance upon ms
corpse, for his tombstone was placed no RECORD OF us
lifelong labors-nO mention Of his great discovery.
There craven upon 1t affecting words, winch may
be thus simply translated ask not the grace accord
ing 10 Paul. not that given TO Peter Give only tho
favor which Thou didst show 10 the thef on the Cross
Not till thirty years after did friend dare write on his
tombstone a memorial of his discovery. The book was
in hand at by the proper authorities IL was
solemny conference.-the read II TO risk salvation,
and the world accepted the decree Many minds had re-
ceived this truth; only one tongue dared utter It,
the warrior was that strange mortal JOrdano
Bruno He hunted from land 70 landunti, at last,
he his pursuers and writes fearful satres on
Church. For this he is imprisoned six years, then
burned alive and then his ashes are scattered to the
But the new truth lived. 1t would not be stHed.
Within years after the execution OF Bruno the truth
scope OF Calico Herein was fulhed one OF the most
touching Of prophecies Years before. the enemies OF
Vehus Would show phases like he Moon" KoperRR
answered, you are right; know not what to
an answer to this objection" The God gwen answer
came when the rude telescope OF Calico showed the
phases Of Venus On this new champion Calico the at
tack was tremendous The supporters Of what was
called sound learning" declared ms discoveries decep
professors attacked him with sham science earnest
preachers attacked him with perverted Scripture
ATHEIST AND ISFIDEL
The principal weapons in the combat are worth OK
aiming They are very easily examined; you may
pick them up on any OF the battle,felds Of Sci
ence; but that field they were used with
more effect than almost any other. These
weapons were two epithets-the epithets "Infdel"
and atheist" These hardly be classed with civ
ilized weapons; they are burning arrows; they
great popular preudces Smoke rises
to obscure the real questions Fire bursts out times
10 destroy the attacked party They are poisoned weap
They 20 TO the heart OF loving women they alien
ate dear children they ure the man aer llte ended,
for they poisoned wounds IN the hearts OF those
who loved him best-lears for his e;ernal happiness,
dread OF the Divine dpleasure. The battlefelds OF
Science thckly srewu with these They have been
used against almost every man who has ever done any
thing for his feOW.men. The list OF those who have
been denounced lnfdel and Atheist includes almost
all great Of scence-general scholars, inventors,
phanthropists The deepest Christian Iie the
bic Christian character has not awaited to shield combat
Locke and John Howard have had these weapons hurled
against them Nay N these very times we have seen
and with 1t another missile which often appears on these
@ I'VE dl6 ehes on ANA haIer
though often effective disturbing the ease OF good
somewhat hunted Indeed Il not inirequenty inGro
assaants more than assaied SO was not In the days
OF Calico These were then In all their sharp
and The first champion who appears against
him Is Bellanine, one OF the greatest OF tbeOogans
aud one of the poorest scientists He earnest
learned but made the fearful mistake for the world
Of applying direct literal Interpretation OF Scripture
10 science The consequences were sad. indeed. Could
he with his vast powers have taken different course.
Humanity would have been spared the long and fearful
war which ensued and Religion would have saved 10 her
self thousands thousands Of the best and brightest men
~ after ages The weapons; which men OF Bsarmines
stamp used were theological They held up before the
world the dreadful consequences which must result TO
CnTlhtan were the prevail that the
heavenly bodies revove about SUM- about the
earth
SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE.
Their most tremendous theoogc engine against Calico
was the idea that his pretended discovery vitiated
the whole Christian plan of salvation Father lie Care
declared that 1t cast suspicion the doctrine OF the In
carRaon others declared that upset this whole basis OF
theology that II the earth planet and only among
planets it cannot be that any such great things
have been done especially for it, the Christian doctrine
teaches II there are other planets-snce God makes
nothing vanthey must be inhabited but how these
inhabitants be descended from ADAM how they
back their origin TO NOas ark how they have been
nv no In In 1ioinu