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may notice .2:reater liberality in all denominations to-day. less- 

 inclination to substitute abuse for argument, an avoidance of 

 such a term as "Infidel," which was so lavishly bestowed on 

 ;^ir Chas. Lvle and several others by the champions of Or- 

 thodoxy formerlv. "In New Chapters in the AA^arfare of 

 Science" (A. D. AMiite), ex-Principal of Cornell University, 

 to which I have referred already, he states : "It is a duty and 

 " a pleasure to mention here that one great Christian scholar 

 " did honor to religion and to himself by quietly accepting- 

 " the claims of science and making the best of them, despite 

 " all these clamors." That man \vas Nicholas Wiseman, 

 who afterwards became Cardinal Wiseman. The older 

 Church had learned bv her earlier mistakes, especially in the 

 cases of Copernicus and Galileo, what dangers to her claim for 

 infallibilitv lav in meddling with a growing science. He also 

 notes an article bv a Catholic gentleman (St. George ^Nlivart), 

 in the Nineteenth Century, July. 1885. in which this passage 

 occurs, viz. : God allowed the Pope and the Church to fall 

 into this g-rievous error, which has cost so dear, in order to 

 show once for all that the Church has no right to decide ques- 

 tions in Science. I wonder if other churches are now profit 

 ing by these examples. It seems rather surprising to the 

 writer that some of the statements passed unchallenged ; that 

 not even a mild protest was forthcoming. The chin"chmen of 

 "Toronto the Good" apparently are as ready to cast aside 

 Jewish traditions as the Bampton Lecturer (of Huxley), who 

 said: "\\'e most of us remember when in this countr}- (Eng- 

 land) the whole storv of the Exodus and even the legend of 

 Jonah, the fabrication of Eve, were seriously placed before 

 boys as historv and discoursed as dogmatically as Agincourt 

 or the Norman Conquest. All this is now changed ; the whole 

 world of historv has been revolutionized ; the mythology which 

 embarrassed earnest Christians has vanished as an evil mist." 

 We mav notice while Sir John Evans clearly proves that man 

 existed in England in even pre-glacial times, as was shown by 

 recent cave discoveries where human implements and bones 

 were found mixed with the remains of animals now confined 



