As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did … - John William Draper

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I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

John William Draper

As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism.

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Four years after the death of Justinian, A. D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race. . . Mohammed. . .

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Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

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Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

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Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

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The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

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