New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-14
TYNDALL AND MS Critics.
PASTORAL OF CARDINAL CULLEN.

PAGANIsM VIEWS or A PROMINENT JOURNAL
on THE PAsroRAL-TYNDALL's ADDRESS AT MAN
CHESTER.
lrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNE
LONDON. Oct. 31-An extraordinary Interest con
tnues TO be manifested in DIR. Tyndalis address 10
the British Association at Belfast. One evidence of
| it is the appearance of the sixth edition of tho
octave edition of the address, published with adj
ditons and preface by Messrs. LOngnanl: shortly
| to be followed by seventh, with some further
slight revision. For an address which had pre-
viously reached some hundreds OF thousands OF
readers through the newspapers this circulation Is
very remarkable Another evidence is the Pastoral
issued yesterday by Cardinal Cullen and the q
Catholic Bishops and ArchbishOps Of Ireland to
their flocks expressly to combat DR.. Tyndall and
DR.. Huxley The Pastoral does not lack yigor nor
directness To make sure of not being misunder-
stood Cardinal Cullen denounccs the materialistic
theory which recognizes in matter the promise and
potency of every form of life as nothing
but tho teachings of pagan philosophers
GOO years before Christ. These doctrines excliim-
his Emnence, born of a corrupt paganism. spurned
by the great heart Of mankind in disgust, and
angrily rejected as absurd by tho very flower OF
human intelligence, reprobated by the Holy sDirli
as objectionable sins, had been haughily proclaimed
in assemblies gathered for the advancement OF
science as sovereign truth in the slendOr Of which
the Christian relilo must stand convicted asan i'm
posture" That is not true but II is in much more
effective style than that of Door Dr. Watts. We
may feel sure that Cardinal Cullen, though equally
capable of putting into Dr. Tyndalls mouth words
he did not utter will not mistake Lucretus for a
Greek philosopher. is there" the Cardinal asks,
man so blind not to see to what havoc in ind-
yidual souls to what ruin in society, to what uni
versal Enchanting of all the worst passions, ravenous
for satisfaction, these doctrines inevitably point.
suppose Cardinal Cullen knows his own people
and what sort OF language will prove effective with
| them but he is too shrewd man TO suppose that
rant of that sort will influence the world in general
It is more interesting to find him attempting TO de
| fine the proper domain OF science /" Ii is the duty
and the right of physical science" he tells us, " to
observe the phenomena and the laws Of the material
world but the physicist as such will revor ask him
| self by what influence external to the universe the
universe is sustained simply because he is rhysi'
| cist" That is the business Of the Church, which,
however far from opposing the cultivation of hui
man arts and sciences, IN many ways helps ard pro-
notes it, She denies that there is any conflict be-
tween Religion and any Science which coniinesitsch
to its own subject matter. She does more man thi'
She lays down rules by which any apparent COLI
sion between them NAV he explained" 10u cannot
| am cure but be curious 10 know what
these rules are, and what explanation the
Cardinal has to offer Of sundry historical facts
| touching the relations between Science and the
| Church. In the Cardinals mind there is no diff
Guilty The empty appearance decentralization arises
chiefly from this, either that the dognas Of faith
have not been understood explained according TO
the Churchs mind, or that mere theories have been
| put forward as decisions of right reason" The
Catholic NAV view in peace land even with de-
light the progress of science. provided he be ZEN
lightened by the teachings of the Church and he
| told IN passage which would do credit to the
greatest of Catholic causlsts precisely how to escape
| from apparent difficulties:
| I. he hears a contradiction between science and
religion IL will soon be found only an appearance Or
contradiction; or II contradiction really exists, VI VIII
be found that the boasted discovery wnich creates IS
truth beyond Gai9say, and the contradiction plain.
then the doctrine with which IL is In cOunit VIII d.
found to be "a Biological opinion and not dogma;
If be dogma, It has been misundcrs"l, OF Dol OK
planned according 10 the mind OF rhe Cnnfch'
Upon this The Times remarks, cleveily:
n this be the case even the distinct visions which
Roman Catholicism is supposed 10 offer TO ls Sohres
liable dissolve at the Ilght OF da, aud Scenc
after ALL achieves her triumph. One clnno, however
but ask what is the of dogmas which are thus TO Dc
always held subject 10 the possibility OF tielr PROVING
no d9gmas az all but only opinions. The
Church. according 10 the preates- ~ l9s'ess'on
absolute truth but she does not, httCr az Au0" Wat
the truth until the light OF Science has dispersed her
own misconceptions.
And it is to be noted that the immediate effect IN
England of this Catholic manifesto IS suddenly to
send over TO Dr. Tyndas side body of allies here
tofore By no means disposed to be rank d with him.
The Times is greater power than Cardinal Cullen
and all his array of bishops and aroLbi,hops 1t is
not more completely English than il Is Protestant
II resents an attack 10y Science on Religion, and 1t
strove to break the force of Dr.. Tyndali5 address
But it rescnts still more strongly thc claims that
Rome puts forth in behalf of Religion, ana replies to
Cardinal Cullen by the emphatic declaration that;
The only practical question at issue Is as Prof Iyn-
dali said. whether the guidance OF h0uX"' agI euHea
ton shall be Lft TO the freedom OF me e. III spt,
or han again 10 the domination iroa wllehh
escaped three or four centuries ago; Inc publ
need not trouble themselves about ancient .ChOoso
philosophy in order to answer That Question: iey need
only inquire UnGer whose gudJuce sclc1ce ached the
point al h!ch she now commands attention Of the
Roman Cathc &c Church and compass TIE rope 10 bcss
~ nnder tho guidance or control OF sIch
those WHO this Pastoral under that Ci men WAC
were diSeours ged re- pressed ana cS9n 'tv
and uncertainties We shall trust our,evts 10 inc pin
cipies and to the guidance under WHICH car present.
knowledge has teen won.
In very different strain was the sermon last sum
day by Dr. Jowctt. himself certainly one OF the moss
distinguished men in the Church OK England lilo
finds in Science the opportunity for new appilca-
ton of religion aud considers regard rthe physl
cal well-being of our feowcreaturys as the direct
service OF God and sort OF worship quite as
much as that in the churches. In religious DEVOTION
and in the sincere love of truth he no antago-
uism though many had possessed the one without
the other Bat this he thinks an age when the two
should at least work together In the report of DR..
Jovett's discourse there does not 10 be word
Of theological bitterness.
DR.. Tyndal himself meantime, has had another
word TO say. On Wednesday-two days before Car
dinal Culen's thunder was heard-he delivered in
tue Free Trade Hall at Manchester tue first Of Sc
ries of Scientific Lectures for the People Ills subject
was Crystalline and Molecular Forces" At the