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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)

by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 08, 2023 10:39AM

“There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and scowl on it the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies on which they live. In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is.

[Letter to José Francesco Corrê a Da Serra - Monticello, April 11, 1820]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: clergy, creed, dread, duperies, fatal-harbinger, opposition, presbyterian, priests, pulpit, religious-sects, science, science-vs-religion, university-of-virginia, william-and-mary, witches

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“The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.”
― John William Draper, History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

tags: conflict, discoveries, history, intellect, narrative, power, record, science, science-vs-religion

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