1860, Oxford : quand Darwin bouscule les certitudes et que la science affronte la religion. From Creation to Evolution plonge au cœur du débat qui a divisé l’Angleterre victorienne, entre foi et raison, tradition et modernité.

Dans cette masse de sculptures qui ornent nos cathédrales et qu'a inspirées la théologie du moyen âge, se rencontre fréquemment un groupe digne d'arrêter l'attention, car il est l'expression d'une doctrine vénérable par son antiquité, touchant l'origine du monde.Le Tout-Puissant est représenté sous une forme humaine, façonnant le soleil, la lune et les étoiles, et les suspendant à la voûte solide du firmament, laquelle supporte le ciel « au dessus » et recouvre la terre « au dessous ».Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 8 minutes "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom" is a two-volume book published in 1896 by Andrew Dickson White. The book explores the conflict between science and religion throughout history. It discusses various topics such as the literal interpretation of Genesis, the opposition faced by scientists like Copernicus and Galileo, the resistance against geological theories, the belief in demonic possession and witchcraft, and the condemnation of usury. The book also highlights the flawed arguments and poor scholarship of White, who popularized the idea of an adversarial relationship between science and religion. However, recent scholarship has shown that the warfare thesis is neither useful nor accurate in describing the relationship between science and religion. Historians have rejected the myths propagated by White and other authors, such as the belief that people thought the world was flat before Columbus.

What is the ideal scope of anthropology? Anthropology is the whole history of man as fired and pervaded by the idea of evolution. Man in evolution - that is the subject in its full reach. Anthropology studies man as he occurs at all known times. It studies him as he occurs in all known parts of the world. It studies him body and soul together-as a bodily organism, subject to conditions operating in time and space, which bodily organism is in intimate relation with a soul-life, also subject to those same conditions. Having an eye to such conditions from first to last, it seeks to plot out the general series of the changes, bodily and mental together, undergone by man in the course of his history. Its business is simply to describe. But, without exceeding the limits of its scope, it can and must proceed from the particular to the general; aiming at nothing less than a descriptive formula that shall sum up the whole series of changes in which the evolution of man consists.

"I purpose to present an outline of the great, sacred struggle for the liberty of science - a struggle which has lasted for so many centuries, and which yet continues. A hard contest it has been; a war waged longer, with battles fiercer, with sieges more persistent, with strategy more shrewd than in any of the comparatively petty warfares of Cæsar or Napoleon or Moltke.I shall ask you to go with me through some of the most protracted sieges, and over some of the hardest-fought battle-fields of this war. We will look well at the combatants; we will listen to the battle-cries; we will note the strategy of leaders, the cut and thrust of champions, the weight of missiles, the temper of weapons."