A preacher against the sin of science
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

A preacher against the sin of science

Copley, John, 1875-1950 · 1912

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

A Dominican friar anathematising science. With uplifted arm, and striding to and fro on a platform erected in the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, he vigorously denounces those who would seek to force by intensive culture the tree of knowledge of good and evil, already - as it appears to him at least - too full grown.

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