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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

CHAPTER I
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The time-honored wonders that had been glorified in the "Odyssey," and sacred in public faith, were found to have no existence.

As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusion; it was discovered that there is no Olympus, nothing above but space and stars.

With the vanishing of their habitation, the gods disappeared, both those of the Ionian type of Homer and those of the Doric of Hesiod.
EFFECTS OF DISCOVERY AND CRITICISM.

But 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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