2020年4月30日木曜日

When Puritan Theology Helped Develop Immunology


Please read When Puritan Theology Helped Develop Immunology

"The 1721 Boston smallpox epidemic saw most physicians opposed to inoculation, while many ministers supported it..... The conquest of smallpox began when two Puritan pastors [Cotton Mather (1663–1728) and Benjamin Colman (1673–1747)]  investigated whether God had provided a solution for the virus in nature....God has created means—cause and effect in the natural world—so we might discover those means and use them....'Puritanism looked upon itself as the synthesis of piety and reason.'” (Puritan scholar Perry Miller) 

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