Andrew Dickson White

Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) was an American historian, educator, and diplomat best known for co-founding Cornell University in 1865 with Ezra Cornell. He served as Cornell's first president and advocated for the university's non-sectarian and coeducational principles. White is also noted for his book "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom," which explores the conflict between science and religion. Throughout his career, he held diplomatic roles, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Germany and Russia.

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INTRODUCTION As far back as just before our Civil War I made, in France and elsewhere, a large collection of documents which had appeared during the French Revolution, including newspapers, reports, speeches, pamphlets, illustrative material of every sort, and, especially, specimens of nearly all the Revolutionary issues of paper money,—from notes of ten thousand livres to those of one sou. Upon this... more...

My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel they are letting the rays of the April sun into the great ice barrier which binds together the modern quays and the old granite fortress where lie the bones of the Romanoff Czars. This barrier is already weakened; it is widely decayed,... more...