| OPPOSITION TO SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS. | [390] |
| The Popes as patrons of scientific education. |
| Swift on genius and assinine opposition. |
| Allston on truth in unusual form. |
| "Nonsense" and "absurd" on scientists' tongues. |
| Jordan on human conservatism. |
| Galileo's letter to Kepler, on "logic" and science. |
| Huxley on Galileo. |
| De Morgan on other cases. |
| Dogmatism and folly. |
| Persecution of scientists. |
| Harvey, Vesalius, Servetus, Steno. |
| Not confined to old times, Jenner, Auenbrugger, Laennec, Thomas Young, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Semmelweiss. |
| Opposition in other sciences. |
| Ohm. |
| Young men and discoveries. |
| Pasteur and rabies. |
| Our universities and economics. |
| Conservatism still active. |
| The lesson. |