The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-01-14

tain OF the Texas-the man and
Christian sympathy and humanity
stronger. more prompt than the hero
and the patriots exultation, even in
the first moments Of victory, COM
plete, dazzling, unprecedented.
The most genial and popular OF
Roman poets has only praise for the
"provident mind" Of the soldier who
saw In an effort to rescue the captured
only loss added to disgrace, proph-
esying grave national and military
deterioration.
Isl non perirent immiserab bills cap
tiva pubes."
Yet Col. IngersOll's assertion that
"millions of men have rejected Chris
tianity on account of its cruelty" is
even more startling than his claim
for Pagan altruism.
If millions Of men are or have been
such tender humanitariaDs why have
the worlds charities been chiefly or.
ganized and conducted by Christians?
''The Bible" to quote again, twas
never rejected by the cruel" How
can he know that? How can he
prove 1t? Really legal practice should
have cultivated more exact methods
Of thought and expression. Will he
seriously maintain that the execu-
TONERS of Louis XVI and Madam
Roland, OF Priest and Girondist, were
distinguished by either orthodox
piety or sensitive humanity?
He cOnfounds coincidence and Sc.
quence most illogically when he
writes:
1.-THE Bible has been upheld by
countless tyrants, by the enemies Of
intelligence"
Tyrants are often able men.
They comprehend the strength
Of the religious impulse and
appeal to 1t as they would to any
moto power. 1t would be quite as
just and reasonable to reproach art
and literature because tyrants have
been among their protectors and
patrons.
The majority Of great schools and
libraries have been founded by
churchmen. Huxley declares that
II all else were lost worlds science
could be recreated from the annals OF
the "British Royal Association" ,
That society was organized in the
rooms of clergyman by members of
the Church Of England. Would it
be logical to argue any inherent, in
connection between Cath
olicism and literature, science and
the Church of England?
1t is objectionable in 80 we'll in
man as Col. Ingersoll in
las he does SO constantly
that infdelity Is an inherent property
Of courageous and profound minds. !
No historian can be ignorant that
the majority of men who have in.
fiuenced national destiny, created
modern science, teaching men less
what TO think than how 10 think,
have prOfessed the Christian faith.
Tyndal but registers the verdict of
the scientific world when he writes
all science must for Il time become
Cartesian. Huxley, who will surely
not be called partial witness, de-
clares that Descartes lived and died
a good Catholic. Bacon opens his
great work with prayer to "God
the Father--GOd the Son and God
the Holy Spirit" that human know
ledge might not prejudice divine
truth. Locke was II devout Bible
student. Newton was deeply,
Priestly fanatically religious.
No one sufficiently instructed to
iiScuss the subject at all will be apt
% imagine any necessary connection
Descartes' Catholic aud
deductions. Bacon's
Ielief in Christianity is not promh-
lent factor in his priori philoso-
ply. IL would be difficult to demon
'trate that NewtOn's faith materi-
lily assisted his investigation of t
inverse squares. The persecution of I
Volney does not appear necessary /
to the discovery of
oxygen gas.