judge a little more
dispassionately.

Professor Draper's prestige, and the fact that his book was published
in the International Scientific Series, led a great many people to
read it, and it found its way into many of the public libraries of the
country, on whose shelves it may still be found. Many of its readers
thought it could never be effectively answered. Scientists were
affected by it, or at least those interested in science, and it
represented one phase of that pronounced opposition to religion which
characterized what has been so well called the "silly seventies."

And if the seriously educated were willing to accept the ignorant and
prejudiced views of Professor Draper, what was to be expected of the
general reader? What has helped the position of the Church {519} in
this country during the past generations is knowledge, and ever more
knowledge. When those who are not of the fold know even a little of
the history of the Church, know a reasonable amount of the other side
of controversial problems, and, above all, when they have been brought
into personal touch with the Church itself, her pastors and the
hierarchy and religious men and women, prejudice disappears and
understanding grows. We still have the monks and nuns of the olden
time with us, but no one who knows them personally ever thinks for a
moment of lazy monks and idle nuns. After a man has met scholarly
Catholic clergymen, he has quite a different view of the relations of
the Church to education. That is all that the Church has ever
needed--to be known in order to be appreciated. Nothing emphasizes
this so much as the change that has come over the opinions of those
outside the Church as a result of growth in knowledge of the Church
and her institutions during the generation that separates us from the
writing of Professor Draper's book.

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INDEX

A

A.A.A.S. 311

_Abditis de causis morborum_ 84

Accident of fevers 213

Achievement, human 306

Achillini 76, 86, 92, 105, 244

Achillinus (see above)

Addison 85

After-care of insane 371

Agenius, Otto 47

Agnostic 262

Agnus Dei 199

Albert (see Albertus)

Albertus Magnus 102, 134, 287, 295, 305, 324;
botany 318;
physical geography 318;
science 299;
scientific treatises 319;
scientific works 319

Albigenses 257

Albucasis 99

Alchemy 134, 135

Alderotti, Thaddeus 206

Alexander VI. 215, 231

Allbutt 83, 173, 185, 194, 196, 214, 506

Al