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philological sciences has shown itself incapable of 

 giving an answer to the very questions which most 

 interest us. And still more has it forfeited the claim, 

 which it has made during the past hundred years, to 

 frame laws for the government of mankind in lieu of 

 those given by Christ and His Church. The conse- 

 quence is that all thoughtful men are beginning to 

 realize the fact, if they did not realize it before, that 

 questions of free-will and moral responsibility are not 

 to be settled by physiology, nor are rules of conduct 

 to be sought for in Evolution. Hence, if we are to 

 live anything more than an animal life, we must have 

 something higher than science is able to afford ; we 

 must be guided by the teachings of the Founder of 

 Christianity, by the saving influence of that Church 

 which, for well-nigh two thousand years, has shown 

 herself the sole power capable of lifting man from a 

 lower to a higher moral and spiritual plane. 



The net result, therefore, of a hundred years of 

 aggressive warfare against the Church and religion, 

 the outcome of all the flattering but misleading 

 promises of science in the matters which we have 

 been considering, have been the very opposite of 

 those intended. M. Brunetiere resumes the result 

 in two words and no well-informed person will, I 

 think, be disposed to contradict his conclusions 

 these are : " Science has lost its prestige, and religion 

 has recovered a portion of hers." ' 



*" La Science a perdu son prestige; et la Religion a recon- 

 quis une partie du sien." See his interesting article, "Apres une 

 Visite au Vatican," in the Revue des Deux Mondes, for Jan. t, 

 1895. 



