The efforts of Eusebius, Basil, and Lactantius to deaden scientific thought; the efforts of Augustine to combat it; the efforts of Cosmas to crush it by dogmatism; the efforts of Boniface and Zachary to crush it by force, conscientious as they all were, had resulted simply in impressing upon many leading minds the conviction that science and religion are enemies.
On the other hand, what was gained by the warriors of science for religion?
Certainly a far more worthy conception of the world, and a far more ennobling conception of that power which pervades and directs it.

Which is more consistent with a great religion, the cosmography of Cosmas or that of Isaac Newton?
Which presents a nobler field for religious thought, the diatribes of Lactantius or the calm statements of Humboldt ?( 36) (36) For D'Ailly's acceptance of St.Augustine's argument, see the Ymago Mundi, cap.vii.For Tostatus, see Zockler, vol.i, pp.

467, 468.

He based his opposition on Romans x, 18.

For Columbus, see Winsor, Fiske, and Adams; also Humboldt, Histoire de la Geographie du Nouveau Continent.