# History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Volume Two

An audiobook by Andrew Dickson White, read by LibriVox volunteers (15 h 15 min, English).

"In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted invariably, in the direst evils both to religion and to science; on the other hand, all untrammeled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science." In these volumes, White chronicles the gradual emancipation of science from theology in various fields. But White's work has been condemned by modern researchers! Historian of science and agnostic Ronald Numbers has stated, in a collection dealing with inaccuracies made by White and others, "Historians of science have known for years that White's ... accounts are more propaganda than history." Biographer Albert Bigelow Paine mentioned that this book was one of Mark Twain's favorite books, near the end of his life. Barbara Schmidt, in her TwainQuotes.com says, "Mark Twain referred to Dickson's book saying, 'When you read it you see how those old theologians never reasoned at all'" Twain's personal copy of White's two volumes are…

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## Chapters

1. Chapter 13 - From Miracles to Medicine - Section 1 - The Early and Sacred Theories of Disease (8:10): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_01_white_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter 13 - Section 2 - Growth of Legends of Healing (42:03): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_02_white_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter 13 - Section 3 - The Mediaeval Miracles of Healing Check Medical Science (8:27): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_03_white_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter 13 - Section 4 - The Attribution of Disease to Satanic Influence (9:16): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_04_white_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter 13 - Section 5 - Theological Opposition to Anatomical Studies (4:33): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_05_white_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter 13 - Section 6 - New Beginnings of Medical Science (8:51): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_06_white_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter 13 - Section 7 - Theological Discouragement of Medicine (19:55): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_07_white_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter 13 - Section 8 - Fetish Cures under Protestantism - The Royal Touch (9:42): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_08_white_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter 13 - Section 9 - The Sciencific Struggle for Anatomy (13:44): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_09_white_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter 13 - Section 10 - Theological Opposition to Inoculation, Vaccination, and the use of Anasthetics (20:10): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_10_white_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter 13 - Section 11 - Final Breaking Away of Theological Theory in Medicine (6:47): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_11_white_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter 14 - From Fetish to Hygiene - Section 1 - The Theological View of Epidemics and Sanitation (32:52): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_12_white_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter 14 - Section 2 - Gradual Decay of Theological Views Regarding Sanitation (16:15): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_13_white_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter 14 - Section 3 - The Triumph of Sanitary Science (12:11): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_14_white_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter 14 - Section 4 - The Relation of Sanitary Science to Religion (6:41): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_15_white_64kb.mp3
16. Chapter 15 - From "Demoniacal Possesion" to Insanity - Section 1 - Theological Ideas of Lunacy and its Treatment (42:00): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_16_white_64kb.mp3
17. Chapter 15 - Section 2 - Beginnings of Healthful Scepticism (19:09): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_17_white_64kb.mp3
18. Chapter 15 - Section 3 - The Final Struggle and Victory of Science - Pinel and Tuke (26:26): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_18_white_64kb.mp3
19. Chapter 16 - From Diabolism to Hysteria - Section 1 - The Epidemics of "Possession" (54:22): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_19_white_64kb.mp3
20. Chapter 16 - Section 2 - Beginnings of Helpful Scepticism (14:35): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_20_white_64kb.mp3
21. Chapter 16 - Section 3 - Theological "Restatements" - Final Triumph of the Scientific View and Methods (9:31): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_21_white_64kb.mp3
22. Chapter 17 - From Babel to Comparative Philology - Section 1 - The Sacred Theory in its First Form (27:44): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_22_white_64kb.mp3
23. Chapter 17 - Section 2 - The Sacred Theory of Language in its Second Form (22:03): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_23_white_64kb.mp3
24. Chapter 17 - Section 3 - Breaking Down of the Theological View (12:36): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_24_white_64kb.mp3
25. Chapter 17 - Section 4 - Triumph of the New Science (25:59): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_25_white_64kb.mp3
26. Chapter 17 - Section 5 - Summary (12:02): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_26_white_64kb.mp3
27. Chapter 18 - From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology - Section 1 - The Growth of Explanatory Transformation Myths (24:22): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_27_white_64kb.mp3
28. Chapter 18 - Section 2 - Mediaeval Growth of the Dead Sea Legends (32:31): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_28_white_64kb.mp3
29. Chapter 18 - Section 3 - Post-Reformation Culmination of the Dead Sea Legends - Beginnings of a Healthful Skepticism (49:39): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_29_white_64kb.mp3
30. Chapter 18 - Section 4 - Theological Efforts at Compromise - Triumph of the Scientific View (19:02): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_30_white_64kb.mp3
31. Chapter 19 - From Leviticus to Political Economy - Section 1 - Origin and Progress of Hostility to loans at Interest (26:06): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_31_white_64kb.mp3
32. Chapter 19 - Section 2 - Retreat of the Church - Protestant and Catholic (24:34): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_32_white_64kb.mp3
33. Chapter 20 - From the Divine Oracles to the Higher Criticism - Section 1 - The Older Interpretation (54:29): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_33_white_64kb.mp3
34. Chapter 20 - Section 2 - Beginnings of Scientific Interpretation (52:20): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_34_white_64kb.mp3
35. Chapter 20 - Section 3 - The Continued Growth of Scientific Interpretation (37:17): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_35_white_64kb.mp3
36. Chapter 20 - Section 4 - The Closing Struggle (51:28): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_36_white_64kb.mp3
37. Chapter 20 - Section 5 - Victory of the Scientific and Literary Methods (48:40): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_37_white_64kb.mp3
38. Chapter 20 - Section 6 - Reconstructive Force of Scientific Criticism (8:32): https://archive.org/download/history_warfare_science_theology2_2305_librivox/warfaresciencetheology2_38_white_64kb.mp3