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Science will certainly neither ask for, nor 

 receive, the aid of the secular arm. It will trust 

 to the much better and more powerful help of that 

 education in scientific truth and in the morals of 

 assent, which is rendered as indispensable, as it is 

 inevitable, by the permeation of practical life with 

 the products and ideas of science. But no one 

 who considers the present state of even the most 

 developed countries can doubt that the scientific 

 light that has come into the world will have to 

 shine in the midst of darkness for a long time. 

 The urban populations, driven into contact with 

 science by trade and manufacture, will more and 

 more receive it, while the pagani will lag behind. 

 Let us hope that no Julian may arise among them 

 to head a forlorn hope against the inevitable, 

 Whatever happens, science may bide her time in 

 patience and in confidence. 



But to return to my "Anonymous." I am 

 afraid that if he represents any great party in the 

 Church, the spirit of justice and reasonableness 

 which animates the three bishops has as slender a 

 chance of being imitated, on a large scale, as their 

 common sense and their courtesy. For, not con- 

 tented with misrepresenting science on its specu- 

 lative side, " Anonymous " attacks its morality. 



For two whole years, investigations and conclusions which 



would upset the theories of Darwin on the formation of coral 



islands were actually suppressed, and that hy the advice even of 



those who accepted them, for fear of upsetting the faith and dis- 



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