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inity and the ( t >ueen's ( 'ollc^es. the memorialist- 



iarkest stroke of all: "They will, in the solitude of 



own homes, unaided by any jruidin',' advice, devour 



the works of Ilaeckel, Darwin,' iluxloy, Tyndall, and 



Lvell; works innocuous if studied under a professor who 



;nt out the difference between established facts 



and erroneous infereiie.es. hut which are calculated to sap 



..tli of a solitary student, deprived of a disci iminat in- 



cut to which he could refer for a solution of his 



difficult 



In the light of the knowledge given by this courageous 



memorial, and of similar knowledge otherwise derived, the 



< :iiholic manifesto did not at all strike me as a 



chuckle over the mistake of a maladroit adversary, but 



i as an evidence of profound uneasiness on the part of 



.rdinal. the archbi>hop>. and the bishops who M 



it 1 -1 toward the Student's Memorial, however, 



with their accustomed practical wisdom. As one conces- 



the spirit which it embodied, the Catholic Univer- 



sity at Kensington was brought forth, apparently as the 



effect of spontaneous inward force, and not of ontward 



pressure becoming too formidable to be successfully 



sed. 



memorialists point with bitterness to the foot, that 

 "the name of no Irish Catholic is known in connection with 

 the physical and natural sciences/' But this, they ought 

 to know^jg^tlie^ com plaint of free and cultivated minds 

 wTjeTever "a T priesthood exercises dominant power. 



the same complaint has been made with respect to 

 'rmaiiy. The great national literature 

 and the scientific achievements of that country, in rn 



almost wholly the work of Protestants. A van- 

 ihini;Iy small fiaction of it only is derived from members 

 of the Koman Church, although the number of these in 

 my is at least as great as that of the l'roto> 



Btfcion arises," says a writer in an able tJerman 

 i e. cause of a phenomenon so humil 

 ' he Cath...... | l<r- he referred to want of 



dowmeiii due to climate (for the l'rofest-i 

 south many have contributed powerfully to the 



.in intellect ). hut purely to out \\aid 



circn \nd then. ,.-d in the 



d system, 



