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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

CHAPTER II
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They were accused of magic, and many of them were put to death.

The profession of philosophy had become dangerous--it was a state crime.

In its stead there arose a passion for the marvelous, a spirit of superstition.

Egypt exchanged the great men, who had made her Museum immortal, for bands of solitary monks and sequestered virgins, with which she was overrun..


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