The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-05-01
Papal InsaIllbIlity-No. J.

70 Inc princfpie OF unity, fully eotAblishs
L in the foregoing articles, will stand, fsr1
T, In it's broadest and fullest light, u the hie
q archical constitution of the Church u Col
q sidered in its original synthesis. Syntbes
10 absolutely necessary in every scientif
investigation, and therefore IL has bee
o faithfully adhered to throughout the who
: progress Of this unpretending essay. An,
lysis, be 1t ever 90 acute, can give at bei
but incomplete, defective and, consequen,
~, imperfect results; it takes particnla
a facts as its basis, and it reaches necessaril
. only particular conclusions, which are n
conclusions at all. From variety it canno
. develop unity, or from the particular con
! clude to the universal. The analytical pro
cess-or as, since Francis Bacon, Of Veru
lam, perverted philosophic studies, it i
!, more commonly termed, the inductive pro
cess-leads necessarily to skepticism il
that 1t would build a system without an,
foundation in principle: and can only b,
of scientific value when it takes synthesil
for its starting point. And this it must do
even in spite of all its pretensions to the
contrary. 1t begins invariably with q fore.
gohe conclusion, and though it claims to
reason from low to high, from the particula,
to the universal, yet it always betrays the
conception of the high and the aniyersal at
its very first step in the path Of inquiry.
One of your biologists will tell you that
with certain chemical agencies he can con-
| struct world, but.whence could he have
the idea Of a world, if there was not q
world already made for the benefit of his
stupidityf One of your little physicians,
with whom brass is a most lucrative sub-
stitute for brains, finds nothing wonderful
in man has he not himself analysed every
bone and muscle and every nerve and fibre
in mans body, and found out what they
are composed off Only give him those
components, and he will give you a man.
constructed, it is to be presumed, after his
own image. Once, on the Opelousas Rail-
road, the writer fell in with such a small
caricature Of our honored and honorable
medical faculty, as well as of our race gen.
orally. But where did he get his idea of
mani Or how could he construct a man
without model, type, even on the over
strained superstition that his vanity could
furnish the materials7 According to this
theory of analysis or induction, the world
is but the fortuitous combination of atoms.
according to the Epicureans, or, if we take
the Darwlnlan view, the progressive accre-
ton around a central sac of detritus
washed down from-(who can tell 9)-uo-
where! while Adam-(the monkey theory
was exploded in former article, in which |
it was demonstrated that monkeys have
been monkeys always, and no more than
the rest of the brute creation, have made
the least progress whatever, )-must have
happened somehow in this subj unary planet
with his navel-string uncut. Here there is
neither a fancy sketch intended, nor anv
amateur criticism deprecated. The ESSAY
was begun to arrest the attention of the
thoughtful, the serious, and may not be
ound unworthy of consideration even bv
ne learned. There are proofs in reserve
% substantiate every conclusion reached:
ne most humiliating one of which is, at
east to the humble writer, that this philos-
'phy is the only one generally studied
low; and mSy be registered in the annals
Il phiiosophic history, as emphatically, the
philosophy of the Nineteenth Century. oil
enapora! No wonder we complain of the
vii times: it IS a wonder we don't reform
ur evil morals. Ali this Is due to the ana
teal method pursued in modern educa-
lop;a method, or want of method, that l
las terribly analysed society, dissolved
very tradition of our race, desecrated
he nuptial couch, effected the disruption I
the family, and brought back into the {
aoral and intellectual creation the fierce.
Freconcilable elements of primordial chaos. K
analysis is not more absurd in philosophy '
+ religion than it is false in history but |
do it justice-nothing better could be t
emanded of it. Analysis is a human ex- q
edient, for want of the Divine Fact. of a
'hlch humanity in it's dismemberment lost 8
lght: it is mans explanation of the va 8
lety he sees around him, and with which e
e Is identified: it is, as its etymology i'm Il
lies, the disintegration of the primeyal i
ynthesis, by which man begins his work I
demolition where God began to create Il
nd organize. God works from high to
wv; man, when he sets up for himself. q
ON low to high, Man analyses and de t
'roys; God creates and harmonizes: and il
ON the awful centre in which he has his In
lrone, at an equal distance from all varie- p
es, establishes other central points, from p