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future. Such a person would soon come to appreciate 

 the fact, a fact that science in all ages has appreciated, 

 that truth-seeking is a very safe occupation, and truth- 

 telling exceedingly useful. 



A few years ago Doctor White made some excellent re- 

 marks upon this side of the question, when he said: 

 "May we not, then, hope that the greatest and best 

 men in the Church the men standing at centers of 

 thought will insist with power, more and more, that 

 religion be no longer tied to so injurious a policy as that 

 which this warfare reveals; that searchers for truth, 

 whether in theology or natural science, work on as 

 friends, sure that, no matter how much at variance they 

 may at times seem to be the truths they reach shall 

 finally be fused into each other? The dominant religious 

 conceptions of the world will doubtless be greatly modi- 

 fied by science in the future, as they have been in the 

 past; and the part of any wisely religious person, at any 

 center of influence, is to see that, in his generation, this 

 readjustment of religion to science be made as quietly 

 and speedily as possible." 



My brief connection with this university, as an invited 

 lecturer, has been an exceedingly pleasurable one, and 

 this has been rendered especially so from the fact that it 

 has convinced me of the great breadth of its views in re- 

 spect to its relation to modern progress and modern 

 thought; and still more from the fact that it proposes to 

 institute methods and operations that will' effectually 

 carry scientific teaching into her curriculum and the 

 scheme of her instruction. When a great Catholic Uni- 

 versity does this she takes a distinct step in advance, and 

 expresses the courage of her convictions that her faith 

 surrounds the true kernel of religion; and although the 

 truths advanced by science may cast strong suspicions upon 

 many of the long-cherished traditional beliefs, or even 

 utterly refute them, she fears not those truths for they 

 can have but the one effect of stripping away all that is 

 unworthy of her and permitting that kernel, to which I 

 have just made reference, to shine forth with the greate~ 

 brilliancy and power. 



In closing it gives me pleasure to tender my most sin- 

 cere thanks for the courteous and hearty reception ex- 

 tended me by the members of this University; and, what 

 has been even more gratifying to me, the compliment, 

 which I most keenly appreciate, of the undisturbed and 

 continuous attention which the Faculty, students and 

 audience have so kindly bestowed upon my remarks from 



