The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-01-30
ORIGLN or WODERN SCII2NrN


Professor jOhn Draper delivered Il
free lecture at New York, last week, in
the chapel Of the University, His sub
jcct was; "The Origin of Modern
Science" Substantially hesaid:
There are certain ideas which have
become domlnat in the intellectual
world which we call science" Modern
science is not, as generally supposed
built upon elements derived from Greece
and Rome, This is Il tradition without
foundation. Science owes more to
Alexandria than to Athens. There
Euclid, Ptolemny, A%pollonius, Hip
parchus and ArchimGdeB studied. The
speaker, when IL boy, was impressed by
the fact that the names Of stars are
Arabic. One Of them, situated thirty
two degrees from the South pole of the
heavens, and which did not show north
OF Egyptor Arabia, he specially noticed.
The heavens have been spread like n
ItI'llt hI'H MJIltll llll HWY Ti'ifllil llN
thoughts. Some say the Arabians were
commentators, But since they ]cIussi-
fled the stars they must be regarded ~
original discoveries and philosonLcrs
This false idea nrogc from uolitic,I mi
mosltlcs, 1t Is necessary to stud All
the phrases of the history Of thuu..hi
to reach it's rcnl guriuoy Every III,
and notion ia fine rrsult If . a..
event or action. We can only ga. a.,
nenrcst links of fine choiu If Il, fin,
We can NOT see who mr. wbot hoIl. Ala,
frat link, Tine old ruoiri,us rv,rc Gail
to hive marie crvstoIs IN vhioL, wL,,
thew looked. worId onncor uoyt @rycuts
Tho Doctor imo,incJ himsolr rooI;,o
history in such n ~crystuI Twcntv com.
turics npo Rome ruIod = Iorno rort -,
the world Thc c.ns,rs woro w,,sLi,,oJ
IA goIs tLouoh thcir dominion ,r iii.
nIuprt even ,vna r,,. rr,,, ,u,i,,r,,I
Some irnLIr Syrian GsLoru,,u ,..,.
thcn ulvipv thrir tr,,I. Ly G,I,Ioo wLo,.
Jnbora were destined to Lnyo riohty ~,
unl,s F,rr cont,r;,s I,,.. a., c,u.
thev Ind tuppht Ind snrood thr,n,,L, a..
Nomou Emniro A grno, ho,r, +, fnn,,L.
nv Cn,stortino anal lac L,oo,u.n
arm. cn,,iro H.. lou,,L., r,,
orori,ool oau L,uI.
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corncst man Loy L,oon ,o~nn.I.aI
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hal u,lo u,, ,I.,. 49,, -,
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ond i romoi,o o,;I ., a.. L.., nf''
uoolo,, w., III
wos .boLo, lao ,Lo r,,.. - '
sodoa MIA ,,,.l., -
fin, vir,or, p,, -.
decuy Thr C,,s,r ,olooo, l
cr;ny CnI,nr, ,,,,.I, - :.
ruins, nddrd only de,nIot;o, TO H.,
scenco. The chief towus of E,urono hod
only novels Tor houscs Strcots v.ro
unpayed. There w,ro ~, so,oro -,
a%uneductg. Windows ,nI h,J. woro
lacking. Clothing ouca nm, ~, ro,,o;n
ed an th. n.rs,n an :, n,,,.l D.,
T., .hr;,o, u,, A.. r'
u...Ir. n "'! "'''olhc.
''5'"' "'' '"'ro were i"l'
I',,'' ,',b'''' ""o comfort 4h'y
law "'",''" III" "P'ci'ild a'h'nH
nuns WY mn' country were iull OF
,"Pp'' in''' ''"S'" were marked
~ '"oi''5 'iH'o''' vi 'he drunken was
"i '"' p"rparouh hortii' Again,
'"'e ''olio "e''''" "' rlSht Oh private
''gnicn' among lle CHRISTIANS, among
10 "oS''inS 'he human mind was I'M
',''cred' 0c""oi-lo''SeS stood by all
Inc mosques. Greek classics were care
.'iiy htuulru. Oh ono point they were