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It is the duty of Christian controversialists to enter the provinces over which skeptical scientists usurp dominion, to point out their mistakes, and thus re-conquer, for truth and for God. the territories in which these scientists claim supremacy.

— George Dering Wolff Modern Physicists and the Origin of Man (1876)

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