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harmonise with all that modern science can 
possibly require ” (p. 305). bain 3 
I confess that this bold assertion interested me~ 
' more than anything else in Mr. Mivart’s book. 
~ What little knowledge I possessed of Catholic 
doctrine, and of the influence exerted by Catholic 
- authority in former times, had not led me to 
expect that modern science was likely to find 
-awarm welcome within the pale of the greatest, 
and most consistent of theological organisations. 
And my astonishment reached its climax when 
I found Mr. Mivart citing Father Suarez as his 
chief witness in favour of the scientific freedom 
enjoyed by Catholics—the popular repute of that 
_ learned theologian and subtle casuist not being such 
as to make his works a likely place of refuge for 
liberality of thought. But in these days, when 
Judas Iscariot and Robespierre, Henry VIII. 
and Catiline, have all been shown to be men of 
admirable virtue, far in advance of their age, and 
consequently the victims of vulgar prejudice, it 
was obviously possible that Jesuit Suarez might 
be in like case. And, spurred by Mr, Mivart’s 
-unhesitating declaration, I hastened to acquaint 
myself with such of the works of the great Catholic 
_ divine as bore upon the question, hoping, not 
merely to acquaint myself with the true teachings 
of the infallible Church, and free myself of an 
unjust prejudice ; but, haply, to enable myself, at 
a pinch, to put some Protestant bibliolater to 
