Volume - The Clarence Darrow Collection

15E(;iXNINGS OF SCEl'l'ICISM.
Even before all this evidence was in, a jndicial decision
had been pronounced ujxjn the whole (jiicstion by an authority
both Christian and scientific, Ironi whom there could be
no ap{)eal. During;- the second (luatictol the century I^rof.
Carl Ritter, ot the rnivtrsit \- oi ]]erlli!, Ik ;i;an ;i;ivin^-
to the
world those researches which h.i\c jilaced iiiin at tlx; head
of all g'eo'^raphers ancient or niodciii, and l:nall\- he l)ron(;-ht
together those relating; to the i;"eoL,n"a})hy ol the Iloly i^and,
publishing them as jjart ot his great work on the physical
geography of the eaith. lie was a Chi-istian, and nothing
could be more reverent than his treatment ol the wlnde subject;
but his German honesty did not peiinit him to conceal
the truth, and he simpl\- classed togetlier all the stories of
the Dead Sea - old and new no matter where tonnd, whether
in the sacred l)ooks ot Jews, Chiistians, or Mohammedans,
whether in lives of saints or accounts ol travellers, as "
m3ths "
and "
sagas."
From this decision there has never been among intelli-
gent men any appeal.
The recent adjustment of orthodox thought to the scien-
t;ific view of the Dead Sea legends jnesents some curious
features. As typical we may take the travels of two German
'heologians between 18(0 and 1S70 John Kranzel, pastor in
Munich, and Peter Schegg, lately jjrofessor in the university
ji that city.
The archdiocese of Munich-Freising is one of those in
kvhich the attempt to suppi"ess modern scientific thought has
3een most steadily carried on. Tt-; archbishops have con-
itantly shown themscKes assiduous in securing cardinals'
lats by thwarting science and b\- stupcfving education. The
win towers of the old catlunlral c^f Munich have seemed to
hrow a killing shadow^ over intellectual development in that
'aris, 1853, especially vol. i, p. 252, and his itiurnal of the early inontlis of 1851, in
ol. ii, comparing with il his work of the same title piihli-Iied in 1^58 in the Riblio-
heque Catholiqiic de Voya;^cs et dc Koinnis, vol. i, pp. jS-Si. h'or Lartct, see his
lapers read before the (leograpliical Societv at Paris ; also citations in Robinson ;
lUt, above all, hi-, elaborate reports wliiclr form the L:;rca;er part of the second and
hird volumes of the monumental work which bear,-, tlie name of I)e Luynes,
Iready cited. l-"or exposures of I)e Saulcy'-- crcfhrity and errors, see \'ari de
''elde, Syria and Palestine, passim ; also Canon Irislram's Land of Israel; also
)e Luynes, passim.
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