Excerpt from The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 13: May to October, 1878
Galileo encountered more than half a century later, were due solely to the circumstance that the new theory tended to subvert the popular faith in the cosmography Of the Church. In modern times, with the many popular expositors Of science, the diffusion Of new truth is more rapid; but even now there is always a long interval after any great discovery in abstract science before the new conception is translated into the language Of common life, so that it can be apprehended by the mass even of educated men.
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