His book examined the relationship between religion and science, dismissing ideas of harmony and presenting the history of science as " not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on the one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other . " After outlining the origins of science in ancient Greek philosophy, Draper presented the development of Christianity as leading to repression of science.
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Despite Christian writers'appeals that differences between science and religiosity have been resolved in a conciliatory manner, White's book was and continues to be a resounding and scholarly indictment of Draper's charge that " The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other . " [ 7]
