...understand that he and the fathers of the Church despised all such inquiries. Speaking of the innovations in physical science, he said : " It is not through...these matters, turning our souls to better things." ' Laetantius asserted the ideas of those studying astronomy to be " mad and senseless." * But the attempt...

...and the future world. "It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them," says Eusebins,1 "but through contempt of their useless labor that...think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things." All physical reasoning was denounced as "empty and false;" and to dispute...

...endeavoured to turn off this idea by bringing scientific studies into contempt. Speaking of investigators, he said, " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their usein the Cairo Museum, see Ebers, Uarda, vol. ii, p. 175, note, Leipsic, 1877. For a similar Babylonian...

...endeavoured to turn off this idea by bringing scientific studies into contempt. Speaking of investigators, he said, " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of thejr usein the Cairo Museum, see Ebers, Uarda, vol. ii, p. 175, note, Leipsic, 1877. For a similar...

...thought of much of his age . when he said, speaking of those who pursued the study of physical science, " It is not through ignorance of the things admired...think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better thing's." And with that deliberate turning away from such subjects there would...

...as saying, "It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them (scientific investigators) , but through contempt of their useless labor, that...these matters, turning our souls to better things." Who would guess from this brief epitome of Eusebius' views that the latter had devoted to the subject...

...endeavoured to turn off this idea by bringing scientific studies into contempt. Speaking of investigators, he said, " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their usein the Cairo Museum, see Eben, Uarda, vol. ii, p. 175, note, Leipsic, 1877. For a similar Babylonian...

...appreciation of its method. A thousand years before Bacon, Eusebius said with regard to scientific questions: "It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their own useless labor, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better...

...the things which excite their interest," remarks an early church father of the scientists of his day, "but through contempt of their useless labor, that...these matters, turning our souls to better things." The scientist's recklessness as to the effect his teachings may have upon souls seems to the churchman...

...Eusebius, the " father" of ecclesiastical history, began by merely using the weapon of contempt : — " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to better things." The belief in the...