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Johannes Miiller, admitted by Huxley to be " the 

 greatest anatomist and physiologist among my 

 contemporaries " ? l What about Kircher, 



Spallanzani, Secchi, de Lapparent, to take the 

 names of persons of different historical periods, 

 and connected with different subjects, yet all 

 united in the bond of the Faith ? To point to 

 these men and a host of other names might be 

 cited is to overthrow at once and finally the 

 edifice of falsehood reared by enemies of the 

 Church, who, before erecting it, might reasonably 

 have been asked to look to the security of their 

 foundations. 



Still there is the edifice, and as every edifice 

 must rest on some kind of foundation or another, 

 even if that foundation be nothing but sand, it 

 may be useful and interesting to inquire, as I 

 now propose to do, what foundation there is 

 if in fact there is any for this particular 

 allegation. 



We might commence by interrogating the 

 persons who make it. The probability is that the 

 reply which would at once be drawn from most of 

 them would amount to this : " Everybody knows 

 it to be true." If the interrogated person is 

 amongst those less imperfectly informed we shall 

 probably be referred to Huxley or to some other 

 writer. Or we may even find ourselves confronted 

 with that greater knowledge or less inspissated 

 ignorance which babbles about Galileo, the 

 Inquisition, the Index, and the imprimatur. 



Galileo and his case we shall consider later on, 

 1 Hume, English Men of Letters Series, p. 135. 



