IV. SCIENCE IN "BONDAGE" 



AMONGST the numerous taunts which are 

 cast at the Catholic Church there is none 

 more frequently employed, nor, it may 

 be added, more generally believed, nor more 

 injurious to her reputation amongst outsiders 

 even with her own less-instructed children them- 

 selves at times than the allegation which declares 

 that where the Church has full sway, science 

 cannot flourish, can scarcely in fact exist, and that 

 the Church will only permit men of science to 

 study and to teach as and while she permits. 



To give but one example of this attitude to- 

 wards the Church, readers may be reminded 

 that Huxley l called the Catholic Church " the 

 vigorous enemy of the highest life of mankind," 

 and rejoiced that evolution, " in addition to its 

 truth, has the great merit of being in a position of 

 irreconcilable antagonism to it." An utterly 

 incorrect, even ignorant statement, by the way 

 but let that pass. The same writer, in a number 

 of places, in season and out of season, as we may 

 fairly say, 2 proclaims his wholly erroneous view 

 that there is " a necessary antagonism between 



1 Darwiniana, p. 147. 



8 ee ? for example, his Life and Letters, i., 307, 



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