The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27
TFIE 7ARAL SYLLABUS
With Recitation Of the Errors Which It Condemns
TransLated 1rom the italian Of L.EaIeoni.

Fourteenth Philosophy is to
be studied without any reference to su-
pernatural revelation"
Refutation-Our adversaries desire
that philosophy be studied without TAX
ing any account Of revelation
They hate revelation cane peius ct
angue, and iaud TO the skies the unbe-
! levers who, in their foolish pride. seek
to emancipate themselves from its do
minion, claiming that thus alone can
they be free to discuss the great prob
leTs relating to God, man and nature.
Let them exuIt themselves as much as
they please, those proud, vain men;
they are at best but fools, who refuse
to profit by the light which would il
lumine the darkness of their under
standing and guide them safely in their
journeyings over unknown or hitherto
uneXplored paths of science. They deny
to God that reasonable obedience which
they owe him as the author of their
being, who, in order to assist poor,
weak humanity, has designed to reveal
truths 50 important. and who has been
pleased to render those truths certain
by arguments that will not admit of
truth. They otstinateIy close their eyes
to the truth, and, with inexplicable
folly, reject the source of the sublimest
ognitiors-cognition which exalt rea-
son above itself. because they show the
marvellous relations and connection ex-
listing between the physical. intellect
ual and moral orders. Wickedly and
fooliGhly wise, our adversaries are con-
tent to grOpe about in darkness even
regarding those truths which absolutely
speaking, reason can itself discover. but
which revelation places beyond doubt
This is not true philosophy. The true
philosopher will accept truths wherever
he finds them; and much more so when
he can receive them from God. REVEAL
ton is ClJthed with the attribute of pos
tive and absolute gertrude. Testi-
mOnia tua. Domino credibilia facto stunt
minis. History takes rank among the
recognized sources OF truth; and yet
historical truth can never possess more
than an eXtrinsic gertrude. Now, if
we are constrained to yield to the au-
true things which we have not our
selves witnessed, if we confidently rely
upon the testimony of persons worthy
of credit. how much more should we
place implicit credence in things which
are not only established by the direct
testimony of eye-witnesses, but which
were accompanied by the most stupen-
-Latudinarianism.
Fifteenth Error Every man is free
to embrace and profess that religion
which, guided by the light of reason, he /
shall consider true
Refutation-In the first place, this
supposes that God
has never spoken and never desired to I
speak to man concerning the partieu
ar form of worship which He wishes
% be paid to Him. For, granted that
God has once vouchsafed TO speak to .
IS. reason is loud in the assertion that
t is our duty to reverentIy receive His
No one can refuse obed-
ence to the will of the Lord, without
hereby failing in the worship due the
supreme Being and rendering himself.
guilty of rebellion like the prevaricat-
ne angels. Now, it is an undOubted
act. attested by the whole human race,
hat God has manifested Himself to
nan. and prescribed a particular form
f worship by which he desires man
o recognize His supreme dominion
yer all things. and to adore Him as the
liver of all good. Hence the
acrifces of Cain and Abel. the
olemnity used by Enos in the