The universal church of the future by Joseph Keppler, 1883. Interior view of a hall in a museum with four men sitting quietly beneath a shelf of 'Books of Religious Reference'; there is a small crowd gathered before them. Further along the hall is another group of four men sitting beneath a shelf of 'Books of Scientific Reference'; labelled 'Geography'. An owl perched on an open book labelled 'Kosmos’. Further still along the hall is a man lecturing to a large gathering in a section labelled 'Chemistry'. Portraits of Copernicus, Darwin, Spinoza, and Paine hang from the vaulted archways.

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Keywords: books, chromolithograph, crowd, learning, museum, print, religious, science