jan 1, 1896 - History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

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Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University (first non-religious university), publishes a polemic trying to drive a wedge between science and religion. He "in which he projected into the past a supposed opposition of dogmatic Christianity to scientific progress" in order to show how his University was "untainted" by religion.
Marsden, Sould of the American University

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