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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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the divine word, the former as inspired by the Holy Ghost, thelatter as the carrying out of divine command. In Holy Scriptureit was necessary, in order that it be adapted to the understandingof the majority, to say much that is apparently different from itsexact meaning; Nature, on the contrary, is inexorable and im-mutable, unconcerned whether her hidden principles and meansof operation are comprehensible or not by human understanding,for which she never deviates from her previously sketched laws.Hence it seems to me that no work of Nature, either which experi-ence brings before our eyes, or which necessarily follows as a THE STRUGGLE REGARDING THE POSITION OF THE EARTH. 457 consequence of demonstration, should have doubt cast upon it onaccount of passages of Scripture. For the Bible contains thousandsof words of several meanings, and not every sentence in HolyScripture is subject to so strict a law as every work in Nature. Qa/7/eus ^o/tTeus
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S upcnot^ taut US J-com After a Contemporary Print.Although Professor Reusch of Bonn thinks^ that Galileos at-tempts to harmonise the differences arising between science and IF. H. Reusch, Der Prozess Galileis unddie Jesuittn, Bonn, 1879. 458 THE OPEN COURT. the Bible were founded upon the most correct hermeneutic prin-ciples, it nevertheless remains an undeniable blunder that in thisletter he left the domain of facts and intimated the possibility thateven the high clergy might be mistaken in the interpretation of theBible. Castelli, who seems to have considered his friends state-ment as harmless as irrefutable, hastened to allow the letter to be-come public, and thereby placed a piece of evidence in the handsof Galileos opponents of which they made use. Soon after, a Do-minican monk, Caccini of Florence, in a sermon on a text whichseemed made for the occasion, Ye men of Galilee, why stand yegazing up into heaven? thundered against the man who daredattack the infallibility of the orth

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