Neither in his lecture announcements nor in his published works did Rheticus venture to make the new system known, and he at last gave up his professorship and left Wittenberg, that he might have freedom to seek and tell the truth.

Reinhold was even more wretchedly humiliated.

Convinced of the truth of the new theory, he was obliged to advocate the old; if he mentioned the Copernican ideas, he was compelled to overlay them with the Ptolemaic.

Even this was not thought safe enough, and in 1571 the subject was intrusted to Peucer.

He was eminently "sound," and denounced the Copernican theory in his lectures as "absurd, and unfit to be introduced into the schools." To clinch anti-scientific ideas more firmly into German Protestant teaching, Rector Hensel wrote a text-book for schools entitled The Restored Mosaic System of the World, which showed the Copernican astronomy to be unscriptural.
Doubtless this has a far-off sound; yet its echo comes very near modern Protestantism in the expulsion of Dr.Woodrow by the Presbyterian authorities in South Carolina; the expulsion of Prof.Winchell by the Methodist Episcopal authorities in Tennessee; the expulsion of Prof.Toy by Baptist authorities in Kentucky; the expulsion of the professors at Beyrout under authority of American Protestant divines--all for holding the doctrines of modern science, and in the last years of the nineteenth century.( 52) (52) For treatment of Copernican ideas by the people, see The Catholic World, as above; also Melanchthon, ubi supra; also Prowe, Copernicus, Berlin, 1883, vol.i, p.