New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-13
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THE AGE OF MAN. =
BISHOP KEANE EXPLAINS SOME OF HIS RE-
MARKS MADE II BOSTON

lHE hbr VI MAN.
BISHOP KEAyE EXPLAINS SOME OF HIS RE-
MARKS MADE II BOSTON.
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir To-day's Tribune has done me the tonor
Of making the theme, or the occasion. of an
editorial with the above Title Feeling assured that
The Tribune Is incapable doing wlfu injustice TO
any man. and especially TO the representative OF a
public Institution whose honor and usefulness dep'nd
On the soundncss OF the convictions which II upholdS
/ ask room for these few lines TO correct mis-
apprehension which TO through the article
or which unwary readers might easily draw from It,
The article is based reporters account OF
words recently spoken by before the Unitarian
Club, In Boston. TO this effect Human nature IS
true: and every system thai doesn't square with
human nature Is false These words, standing
alone, obviously susceptible OF various interpre-
tations The Interpretation for which alone am
responsible Is manfestly TO be gathered from the
context Of the words and from the circumstances In
which they were uttered. Briefly, they are as fol
lows:
The Unitarian Club OF Boston. with courtesy and
q large mndedness greatly TO their homer. invited me
TO join with DR.. G.. Stanley Hall. president OF Clark
University at Worcester, in discussing before them
this subject: "New Problems and New Movements
in the Field OF Higher Education After reviewing
the facts and the conclusions admirably set forth by
President Hall, went on to consider The Application
of those conclusions the various classes OF special
schools growing up In the realm OF hlgher OF
strictly university education | spoke Of schools OF
ply sical chemical and biological research schools
Of the social sciences, schools Of philosophy and
schools Of comparative religion. Referring TO the II"
markablc amount OF interest and OF learned ioor
evoked In day By the last named class OF stuoS'
and TO the evident importance OF becoming better
and better acquainted with this universal anu
dominant element in the history OF humanity III
sisted that the true religion can have 10 lear Ill
f,cin au -. fact q mast. being tested
by all the principles OF human reason and all the
needs and aspirations OF human nature Na'urh
religion springs from human nature; supernatural UT
revealed religion Is meant to fit 1t. TO beauty H.
| TO perfect It. Any system that does not square
with these tests Is proved not be tie true religion
TO put nv meaning beyond doubt, added; =" Ihere
IS fear that intelligent and honest ihVeS''sl'o
Of nil the forms Of religion that have ever existed
| viii work downward toward inrr" ha'urahNh vi
| humanitir nism; II must work upward, from l"e
scattered and often distorted fragments o tr'h up 10
tho fitness OF the truth IN Him who has said i am
| tho Truth: am the Light OF the World ma re-
| ferrinr 10 the assertion recently made In Now
ENGLAND periodical that modern advances In science
| AVID nhIosophy made the doGmatic position OF the
| Catholic Church untenablc. further added N'"rn
| all nv life lave lccn studying phi"s"ph!, anu
Clone, as we'll as the Catholic religion: ana l en-
NJ ally declare a, an honest man oEins boy
Of honest squire IN the i''' III, n or en-
ali The facts Of science tat in the Slightest degree
| stacprrs nv faith Il Catholic Vhrlsun' ,.
These are the circumstances and This ne 'oh''A,
~ the assertion quoted from me. Tat there /, any
ico,nathilty between the assertion and H. conl'N
nnly fhey will claim who know the 'hthonc thurcn
simply bv hearSay. WHO hav" never sluul'u n,r
doctrine and her spirit. or who view 'hrm oi ON,
through The dlSorting medium - prcludlcr hh1NlhX
hrr as do ! unlc~.tat.ngiy apply to Ter me Wnfd
~ Tho Trilrnc and declare that In her i'HfHhE, ),
| n,ianei the whOir philosophy Of present ual
c,vIizailon the social and religious creed "i ~,
nineteenth century and Of all The centuries r Sor lI'!
ehn Ian,e nll DAYS ill IT," end oi Inc ""riu'
| ."1 tb,t her authority j. rooted IN me mr's .,
n n,,n cxnnrcncr" A. well ~ In tho Divinity oil
| Him who established II. 1919. ,.r,~r
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