Category: History - Ancient
Religious condition of the Greeks in the fourth century before Christ.--Their invasion of the Persian Empire brings them in contact with new aspects of Nature, and familiarizes them with new religious systems.--The military, engineering, and scientific activity, stimulated by...
Religious condition of the Greeks in the fourth century before Christ.--Their invasion of the Persian Empire brings them in contact with new aspects of Nature, and familiarizes...
2. Chapter 2Religious condition of the Roman Republic.--The adoption of imperialism leads to monotheism.--Christianity spreads over the Roman Empire.--The circumstances under which it attai...
3. Chapter 3The Egyptians insist on the introduction of the worship of the Virgin Mary--They are resisted by Nestor, the Patriarch of Constantinople, but eventually, through their influence...
4. Chapter 4By the influence of the Nestorians and Jews, the Arabians are turned to the cultivation of Science.--They modify their views as to the destiny of man, and obtain true conception...
5. Chapter 5Philosophical views of the Orientals.--The Vedic theology and Buddhism assert the doctrine of emanation and absorption.--It is advocated by Aristotle, who is followed by the Ale...
6. Chapter 6Scientific view: the earth a globe; its size determined; its position in and relations to the solar system.--The three great voyages.--Columbus, De Gama, Magellan.-- Circumnavig...
7. Chapter 7Scriptural view that the Earth is only six thousand years old, and that it was made in a week.--Patristic chronology founded on the ages of the patriarchs.--Difficulties arising...
8. Chapter 8The Reformation establishes the rights of individual reason.--Catholicism asserts that the criterion of truth is in the Church. It restrains the reading of books by the Index Ex...
9. Chapter 9Kepler discovers the laws that preside over the solar system.--His works are denounced by papal authority.--The foundations of mechanical philosophy are laid by Da Vinci.-- Gali...
10. Chapter 10That result is manifested by the condition of the city of Rome at the Reformation, and by the condition of the Continent of Europe in domestic and social life.--European nations...
11. Chapter 11THE INTRODUCTION OF SCIENCE INTO EUROPE.--It passed from Moorish Spain to Upper Italy, and was favored by the absence of the popes at Avignon.--The effects of printing, of marit...
12. Chapter 12THE IMPENDING CRISIS. INDICATIONS OF THE APPROACH OF A RELIGIOUS CRISIS.--THE PREDOMINATING CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THE ROMAN, PERCEIVES THIS, AND MAKES PREPARATION FOR IT.--PIUS IX C...