, 1876-02-28

moral couraN0k No cIA6A OF inou On tho cArtbt
thinkers, have had to l!sat anything like no
hard campaign, no long campaign. caul-
pagn against Blch odds, - hAvo sclcntssts sune
the tlAv acfoncn had ita blrll until now. Well
haa rccont writer called Tho campelgns q .
when compared With II. DsAvsry7 II old
Roger Bacon waa not brave, Il Copornlcus. and
oalieoI and KopleE. and 0lort1ano Bruno and
drsas , Vssaiius, shs fouindst Of tbe modsn sci.
ouds Of anatomy, WRa not brnve; II uoyer. the
intsoducor Of iooouIaton As = preventive of
a11All'pox, md Jconcr, tho diacoverer OF vacctn-
and o.hnoiosy, Nv and % eyerv W othor Seiencs. % l,a1e
not been brave. then is thcrn no bravery to ho
found Of, the oarth. Now. bravery Of tho kinl
which thcso men exhibited: d:-6rayory. on tho
high plane ot tho moral,-shloh manitesta Il;
truth is someshing 10 10 commended aud guilt
vatod ~ an elemont Of perfect character. No 70.
llgion ie perfect which, docs not toact. It. 1t
Il 70 s.n s%s'a as 1sssss lip md s qst;t sas:
for whom did tho world ovcE 500 = btavor soul
than tho Toacllos OF Nazareth Tho kind OF brav-
cry oxhihited by these nen whom have nAnlsd,
and BY the mon men,, who have fought ~ battle .. Of
kinu exhibited BY JcR,1s. .--btavofy against COLI
vonttDnnllsm, aud aupefssltion,. and orror. and
for the truth. Why then, shall we honor E,n,
end not II Their d1g[os #. honor them g, 3 why IL
co1orsd rAyR which 60 to make up the whto light
Of Ills religion, aud IN them allow similar
bravery no connection With rollRlon os alls No
II tho man perfees aFser tho mchause Of tho
Stature OF Christ, Is Of neoeaasy morally bravo
man,-a tnan always hnd everywhere bravo for
tho ttnth and IlEht,--thon hayo 10 healtAncy
10 pointing, 10 tho long llae OF mon whose good
bratn-swofds have won from tho empire Of
and eartrR, "LoArn from them how to ba ra-
ilRsously bravo"
ilnal lesson which I think NO mar al learn
from th, aciensls.s, ia tho lcnaon Of Faith. or
10 so oitcp moant by it-moro believing without
evidence Or rcason, mere bliud crodulity.
Heionco neither touches or toleratos anything Of
that l!nd. For that kind Of faith We lnuat 50
bsef ~hie bsssa primarily as upon a osdeaoa Va ssa
"a beluf Which ID tho conaummate aowor Of
kuowledke.-a boitBt Which does no shutting Of
eYos but whtol, lnatead stretches It's viaon to
only wldest,soeing' clearest-aoong, f.rthest;
aeeing, II that ia What we mean By faith (aud
nothing pooror or less than that ought We ever
to moan w it),-thon claim: without hosltation
Science a. akopticsl aud athetatso, ~ NO find
her constantly doing, nlny well heEaolf 20 and
sis down at tho foot 0! Sotonco and learn faith.
Tho history Of leIigton has boon constaus
four; tho history ot sc!onco has been constant
hopo md trust. We cannot 40 back to the ttno
my now light Of knowledge might in somo rny
bohasmfultor religion. Every stop Of tho onward
march Of BoieaceL Al DR.. Draper Las Shown IN
and lioligIon." and as President White has
shown, perhanB better Bt!lI, in articles In tho
February and March nutnoers OF the Sciences
Monthly, has boon mado Ia Lhn tonth Of opposi-
Astronomy, Chemistry aud physlcs Anatomy
and Medicine, Geology. Mstsorology, Csriog-
raphy, Industrial and Agricultural 6clsnce,
Political ECONOMY and eoo!al Solenoe, aud
scloatiao education: haye Ill had to nght their
opposition What uas the seG1et Of tLix opp0sl-
tlon? Itwas not that there IL auysbng In 9olenoo
TINT Unnecessarily anti-rogious. It WAS simply tho
faithlosanees Of regiona mon. Just that. Tue
tnnn who opposed science and every incoming Of
now knoWledga lacked that truo and largo faith
which tho scientific men have a. 1ulo MI tho
while had, that high aud holy faith vhoh soes-
trath ard g9odaes, to DO insepss.ble and which
hidden any earnest search aftor knowledge to
1ekd to lasting evil. Tho religious toacheta nho
have boon forever charging the teachorb Of
Science With skopt1clsn haVo themselves been
the nkoptlcs, In that s4ay have not believed, as
tue Hceutiats AZ class have beloved, that thoEo
Ia "a Power in the universe strong enough,
large enough, good enough, to mako thorough
search for truth safe in avery line Of lnvesl,Ra-
t1on." Nor aro thinga moro than partially
changed tn this mntter now. Every intelligent
man knows 1t to hs trus that to hold today
certain scientific Observation-Disclosures moreover,
which tho ablost soiont|sts Of ths world have
eithor adorted OK else aoemtug'y are fast work.
ing their way toward adopting, Ia to paos oue'n
sef under tho rsgous ban, not only Of Catholl-
ctsn. but OF = largo part OF Ptotostsntlar1. For
example. call man DArwiotsn call nsn
md, in this good yohr, 1876, you shut palplta
agAiuAt him you shut lecture coursoa against
hin you shut college profsssorshpB against
linn; and oven there sra caseB whero you phut
- H.. eli -
Now what docs such blind prejudice
against new scaeotifio doctrines meana il
means st bottom BkeptoiHm. That ia tue mort
rational and tho most clAritable explanation
can gsvo OF 1t. 1t nloaub at bottom n0sh,ng
less thsa . foar that somehow religion ia golug
to suner from tho rsyolationa Of soieuco. Gan
any ous give any othdr explanation Il
our religious tCaoAars aud laAlor1 had sufficient
al the earueatuess Of tllcir Hou1u beltoved. as
one Of our American aclentiBts haa Bnld, THAT
there ts . Power In this universe s.roug enough
to nuke t.atl:seekln9 s1fo' and M good enough t9
ovorywhoro, would they maintain tho attitude to
aclenca that 20 many OF thent dof
80 tnen you SEQ what moan wien I SAY
eoHseshlng so ntrong, aud I copfoss 1t first
thought 10 seemingly strange. ~ ! think TINT
1eilglou may wo 80 and slt 1t tho feet OF Hcleacc
to iearn Inc Iesson OF truo aud resi- fA.tiI.
Lis!on to Tennyaou. the graas post ol Nature
and Scisnon,
OIL yes ~ trust. that somahow good
Wll u tia nn,I Qoal OF III,
To pa.,g' Of nature. s!us of will,
Defects ef doubt and tAsuta Ut blood;
'Tb.t a not ons 'a ifs .Ssit ali. u dtstsoyoi,
Ur cast n rubb!ah to the yoo,
Whau 0od hath made the p!la cofnplesj
That mol worm Is e;ovan In vain;
That not moth, With vain dears,
Ii ahr1Talad IL v frstlslssa hEa,
o. but sub4sfHea an0thetx gain. !