By Lo Chiatun, great changes in Western civilization in the th. Century were due to the widening of space, the discovering of America, and the establishing of new colonies there, the publication of the Copernican theory of the Universe, and Galileo's discovery of the telescope! wherewith he was able to penetrate the heavens. Such discoveries aroused deep interest everywhere, widened men's mental horizon, and illuminated their thought. Then was not long before there arose Bacon who founded modern science. Then came the theory of evolution, the writings of Darwin, Wallace, Huxley, Haeckel and others, which lengthened time, and made the world older by millions of years than we had supposed. Space and time, environment and evolution, these were the watchwords of mankind, and the chief causes of change, so that it came to be seen that in every branch scientific methods must be employed. The inductive methods of Bacon were discovered, and the genetic method of Darwin followed, to help in revolutionizing thought.
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