A whole chapter of nineteenth-century history is condensed in the
phrase "the conflict between religion and science," with our Mother
Eve and the proto-Ape jostling for places at the head of the family
tree. An outstanding figure in the center of this intellectual
conflict was John William Draper, author of History of the
Intellectual Development of Modern Europe and The Conflict Between
Religion and Science, which played an important part in
intellectual debates for many years. Draper helped break new ground
for an age of science, and brought to the level of laymen some of
the issues with which they must grapple in the future. However, he
had the gift of the great popularizer for seeming to leaven the
loaf of tradition, instead of throwing it away, and succeeded in
lending to new ideas the appearance of old ones. His work is an
excellent case history of the way in which innovations are knit up
into continuity with tradition and revolutions in thought are made
palatable.
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