The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-12-31
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NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY MOI
ability. He was twitted by the opposing
counsel and even by the Judge with ex-
hibiting partisanship in his mode of giving
evidence; but the truth is everybody is
partisan in this case. Partisanship is in
partisan and hot one it is difficult not to
become one. The papers, for the most
part, refrain from comment They have
the fear of Lord Chief Justice before their
eyes. 1t must be hard to refrain, especially
at this dull season of the year. 1t 10 hard,
too, for the public to be thrown on it's own
resources and compelled to form an opin-
ion without the help of its best inst.tu.
tion," the daily press. And never was it
so hard to form an opinion. The case for
the plaintiff has not yet concluded and
will not do SO for week or ten days.
That it has not broken down after all these
months is more than many people expect-
ee. Sir John Coleridge was expected to
have some wonderful surprise IN store:
Some unexpected, overwhelming piece Of
would end the proceedings by meio-
| dramatic tabieau, overwhe!m the guilty
with confusion and secure the triumph of
right and Justice. People have long ceased
to expect anything of the sort. The
badgering Of the claimant ABOUT such 3. dim.
1
bridge" or the meaning of the word
" quadrangle" and the batting of Baigent
about such questions as whether the word
successful" in q certain letter, had OF
had not been spelt after the fashion OF
of thing has disappointed the expectants
of the forensically sublime and beautiful.
1t is like the famous red eagle, STOPPING to
prey Upon field mice. The defence may
win, but they will win, if they win at all,
by the patient accumulation ofsmaii proofs,
separately inconsiderable, but collectively
overwhelming. Fifty Wrapping witnesses
are said to be prodnctible who will swear
the claimant to be Arthur Octon. Five
hundred or any other number might, no
doubt, be obtained by judicious means
will be passed under the cross examination
of SERGEANT Ballantine, who, I dare say,
, will not be less merciful than his learned
( friends have been to the claimant and Mr..
| Baigent. The judge is evidently slck OF
the cause. He gets no refreshers. 1t is
disastrous business for Catholic interests
) End how it may, it will cause many q
2 -chuckle to our foes.
, Few transformations at this chaugefu
e epoch have seemed more surprising tnan
, the conversion of Professor Huxley from
8 concocter of shallow and eccentric theories
8 about tile origin of man-into fanatlca
f opponent of Catholic education. The thing
: is, however, easily explanable by those wht
4 are behind the sceEes. The Huxlelan the
: DRY of protoplasms received a crushing re
4 futation in. the Michaelmas number of th'
n Quarterly Rcuie,U. The completeness ant
4 the professor were exploded into thin al
,. attracted very considerable attention In TIL
e intellectual world, and the authorship be
It came the subject of intense curiosity. i
Ie was no secret to Huxley from the first tina
% his victorious opponentwas Catholic
7 10 a
J. columns, although it has not been publicl
n announced here, that the contributor to th
in Quarterly is the learned author of the &c,
csis of Species, a book which has taken ran
" amongst the cleverest publications of til
D. present year. 1t only appeared last sprinl
d. and has already passed through two ed
ir tions. 1t consists of trump plant vindics
in ton, on purely scientific and PHILOSOPHERS
g. grounds, Of the Catholic doctrine of crei
I'd ton and of the origin of man and animal
ic in opposition to Darwin.
,g A Welshman committed suicide the 9TH
ic day, after reading Dsrwin's book. Beir
n thoroughly convinced by that writer of b
q descent from the ape, he felt like the CLAIM
sir ant in the Tichborne case might be col
nd ceived to feel if the law should ultimate
,e. go against him he cast existence from hi
He as O possession now worse than WORTHLESS
a He had not read the Genesis Of Species. n
til st. George Mivart has rescued humani
he from the slur of simian pedigree and
mt quadrumanous ancestry; he refuted Da
80 win in the spring, and in the autumn
ng refuted Huxley. Darwin is q modest 81
es- amiable man, though freethinker, and
nd has not broken of his friendship with
les Catholic opponent. Besides, be is not
ad politician or q member of a London scho
ed board. Huxley is both. Huxley is becol
the SO furious against Catholics that he
i'd even incurred the censure and ridicule
lad the London daily press. federation for
Ugh creeds and for no-creed, he vociferates,
did the pages of his two organs, the FOrtaigh
'ic- and Contemporary Revieics, but, with Q
Sir important exception-no liberation for
lin tholics. He says explicitly that return
BILE religious persecution is not only defensi