Word: gallileo
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...Salient: Conservative biweekly staffed by a hearty clique of right-wingers who attack Gallileo, gays and, if you're lucky...
...them is a singleminded devotion to a cause. The conflicts between their beliefs form the book's underlying message. The most important of these is the Counselor himself, a magical figure who has a strange power over men that only he can understand. Then there is Gallileo Gall, a proto Marxist Scot shipwrecked in Brazil, who sees Canudos as the revolutionary commune he left in Paris in 1871. On the other side is Morcira-Cesar, the military leader who vows to eliminate the religious revolt or die trying...
...Catholic Church's policy are manifest. In so many ages it ought to have brought men to an earlier knowledge of learning and opened the way to the new discoveries in science. Instead the Roman Church retarded science in every possible way. It pronounced strong opinions, but wrong ones. Gallileo was persecuted, and the Copernican theory pronounced false and heretical. How can a church be infallible, which has made so many blunders? It has decreed the absolute verbal inspiration of the Bible, which every biblical scholar knows is not the fact, declared that the scriptures should be interpreted...
...with matter he created. He then made man and placed him upon it. The will of this omnipotent being is the force that set the world in motion and from which all energy springs. The second, or modern theory, which dates back to the original experiments of Newton and Gallileo, tries to account for the origin of the Universe by the laws of science; it is, in short, the "Nebular Hypothesis." The lecturer said that the modern theory was the one which he should adopt in his lecture...
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