Note 26 — Chapter IV · Of the Relation of Tradition to Palætiology.

Besides the Dublin Review, I may quote the Edinburgh Review, which I suppose will not be thought likely to have a bias in favour of the exercise of ecclesiastical authority in matters of science; though certainly there is a puerility in the critic’s phraseology which does not add to the weight of his judgment. ‘Galileo contrived to surround the truth with every variety of obstruction. The tide of knowledge, which had hitherto advanced in peace, he crested with angry breakers, and he involved in its surf both his friends and his foes.’—Ed. Rev. No. cxxiii. p. 126.