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to Trinity and the Queen's Colleges, the memorialists add 
this darkest stroke of all: 'fl They will, in the solitude of 
their own homes, unaided b'y any guiding advice, devour 
the works. ..of Ilueckel, Darwin, Jluxley, Tyndall, and 
Lyell; works innocuous if studied under a professor who 
would point out the difference between established facts 
and erroneous inferences, but which are calculated to sap 
the faith of a solitary student, deprived of a discriminating 
judgment to which he could refer for a solution of his 
difficulties." 
In the light of the knowledge given by this courageous 
memorial, and of similar knowledge otherwise derived, the 
recent Catholic manifesto did not at all strike me as a 
chuckle over the mistake of a maladroit adversary, but 
KiiUier as an evidence of profound uneasiness on the part of 
the cardinal; the archbishops, and the bishops who signed 
it. lilies u^ted toward the Student's Memorial, however, 
with their accustomed practical wisdom. As one conces- 
sion to the spirit which it embodied, the Catholic Univer- 
sity at Kensington was brought forth, apparently as the 
effect of spontaneous inward force, and not of outward 
pressure becoming too formidable to be successfully 
opposed. 
The memorialists poii^t with bitterness to the fact, that 
"the name of no Irish Catholic is known in connection with 
tUephysical and natural sciences." But this, they ought 
tojtnpvy, is the complaint of free and cultivated minds 
wherever a priesthood exercises dominant power. Pre- 
ciselv the same complaint has been made with respect to 
the Catholics of Germany. The great national literature 
and the scientific achievements of that country, in modern 
times, are almost wholly the work of Protestants. A van- 
ishingly small fraction of it only is derived from members 
of the Roman Church, although the number of these in 
Germany is at least as great as that of the Protestants. 
" The question arises," says a writer in an able German 
periodical, " what is the cause of a phenomenon so humil- 
iating to the Catholics? It cannot be referred to want of 
natural endowment due to climate (for the Protestants of 
southern Germany have contributed powerfully to the 
creations of the German intellect), but purely to outward 
circumstances. And these are readily discovered in the 
pressure exercised for centuries by the Jesuitical system, 
