8o THE GENETIC AND 



Finally, there remains nothing but theology. Theo- 

 logy alone is the one true science, and its dogmas alone 

 may be taught as certain. Of course ! for it proceeds 

 directly from revelation, and only divine revelation can 

 be " quite certain ; " it alone can never err. Yes, incre- 

 dible as it sounds, Virchow, the sceptical opponent of 

 dogma, the leader of the fight for " liberty of science," 

 Virchow now finds the only sure basis for instruction 

 in the dogmas of the Church. After all that has gone 

 before, the following memorable sentence leaves no 

 doubt on this score : " Every attempt to transform 

 our problems into dogmas, to introduce our conjectures 

 as a basis of instruction, particularly any attempt 

 simply to dispossess the Church and to supplant her 

 dogma by a creed of descent ay, gentlemen this 

 attempt must fail, and in its ruin will entail the 

 greatest peril on the position of science in general." 



The shouts of triumph of the whole clerical press 

 over Virchow's Munich address is thus rendered per- 

 fectly intelligible, for it is well known that " there is 

 more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth 

 than over ten just men." When Eudolf Virchow, the 

 " notorious materialist," the " advanced radical," the 

 " great supporter of the atheism of science," is so sud- 

 denly converted, when he proclaims loudly and publicly 

 that the dogmas of the Church are the only sure basis 

 of instruction, then the Church militant may well sing 



