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central scientific authority, can such be imagined, 

 endowed with the right to say (and in any way 

 likely to be listened to) : " Such and such a 

 statement is interesting even extremely in- 

 teresting but so far one must admit that no 

 sufficient proof is forthcoming to establish it as 

 a fact : it ought not, therefore, to be spoken of 

 as other than a theory, nor proclaimed as fact." 

 Such constraint when rightly regarded is not 

 or would not be a shackling of the human intellect, 

 but a kindly and intelligent guidance of those 

 unable to form a proper conclusion themselves. 

 Such is the idea of the Church in the matter with 

 which we have been dealing. 



