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Who shall number the patient and earnest seekers after truth, from the

days of Galileo until now, whose lives have been embittered and their

good name blasted by the mistaken zeal of Bibliolaters? Who shall count

the host of weaker men whose sense of truth has been destroyed in the

effort to harmonise impossibilities--whose life has been wasted in the

attempt to force the generous new wine of Science into the old bottles

of Judaism, compelled by the outcry of the same strong party?

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