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THE POPES AND SCIENCE--The story of the Papal Relations to Sciencefrom the Middle Ages down to the Nineteenth Century. By James J.Walsh, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D. 540 pp. Price, $2.00 net.
Prof. Pagel, Professor of History at the University of Berlin: "Thisbook represents the most serious contribution to the history ofmedicine that has ever come out of America."
Sir Clifford Allbutt, Regius Professor of Physic at the University ofCambridge (England): "The book as a whole is a fair as well as ascholarly argument."
The Evening Post (New York) says: "However strong the reader'sprejudice * * * * he cannot lay down Prof. Walsh's volume without atleast conceding that the author has driven his pen hard and deep intothe 'academic superstition' about Papal Opposition to science." In aprevious issue it had said: "We venture to prophesy that all who swearby Dr. Andrew D. White's History of the Warfare of Science withTheology in Christendom will find their hands full, if they attempt toanswer Dr. James J. Walsh's The Popes and Science."
The Literary Digest said: "The book is well worth reading for itsextensive learning and the vigor of its style."
The Southern Messenger says: "Books like this make it clear that it isignorance alone that makes people, even supposedly educated people,still cling to the old calumnies."
The Nation (New York) says: "The learned Fordham Physician has atcommand an enormous mass of facts, and he orders them with logic,force and literary ease. Prof. Walsh convicts his opponents of hastygeneralizing if not anti-clerical zeal."
The Pittsburg Post says: "With the fair attitude of mind andinfluenced only by the student's desire to procure knowledge, thisbook becomes at once something to fascinate. On every pageauthoritative facts confute the stereotyped statement of the purelytheological publications."
Prof. Welch, of Johns Hopkins, quoting Martial, said: "It is pleasantindeed to drink at the living fountain-heads of knowledge afterpreviously having had only the stagnant pools of second-handauthority."
Prof. Piersol, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania,said: "I have been reading the book with the keenest interest, for itindeed presents many subjects in what to me at least is a new light.Every man of science looks to the beacon--truth--as his guiding mark,and every opportunity to replace even time-honored misconceptions bywhat is really the truth must be welcomed."
The Independent (New York) said: "Dr. Walsh's books should be read inconnection with attacks upon the Popes in the matter of science bythose who want to get both sides."
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