Excerpt from The Bible on the Side of Science: A Lecture Delivered in New York, December 14, 1874, Before the Society Fot the Advancement of Science and Art

Tubingen and Jena and Halle and Gottingen and Berlin and Bonn? Who founded Salamanca and Oviedo and Valladolid and Oxford and Cambridge and St. Andrews and Aberdeen I could add scores more of distinguished names in all the countries of Europe, names that are very dear to science, where her streams have been conserved and widened and deep ened as the centuries went on. Who, I say, founded these great centres of learning into which what ever of knowledge Greece and Arabia had gathered, ¿owed as into appropriate homes? T ne men of Me Bz'éle founded ikem. They were pressed to such grand works just by the impulse of that grand old Book of God. When all the rest of mankind were caring either for the mere necessaries of physical living or for wars of aggrandizement, Bible men were holding up the torch of science and striving by its light to read and understand the wonderful works of God. In the monas teries even (amid many dark and superstitious souls, it is true) were found the Roger Bacons, who were the precursors of the Newtons and Boerhaaves and Lavoisiers of later ages. It is vain to Say they were persecuted. That makes only against their age, not against themselves or the Bible impetus under which they acted. The universities were always on the side of liberal study, and opposed to the restraints of super stition, and to them, under God, Science is indebted for the high ground on which she stands to-day. If the Bible were opposed to Science, think you that these things could be?

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