The evening Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-1902, 1902-06-17

present and there we're number
IF visitors from Philadelphia,
Trenton. Burlington. Bordentowu,
Gloucester and Camden, N. J. After
Abe ceremonies OF comforting degrees
sbn>l The new candidates United
States Diatrict Attorney William
Michael Byrne brought before the
meeting notice regarding Apple
tons Cyclopaedia and Atlas. Alter
pointing out what. he considered
gsfroneous statements 10 the publ.
cation he offered a paper. in the
nature of plea Tor fairer treat.
sment and also protest. He sx.
planned It and the council, by
sun anitnous ann enthusiastic rising
vote adopted the pr otest and plea.
The protest, which was adopted,
ID as follows:
The Knights Of Col umbus of Del
aware. have noted with regr ct
sihat the responsible publishing
house Of d. Appleton & Company,
New York, have recently issued an
Universai clopaedia and Atlas
Astounding in misstatemeuts and
misrepresentation on matters Of
interest to Catholic Americans.
The Importance of publication
of this character is SO great that
only the profoundcst scholarship
should find expression In his pages
We observe that the antlquated
xhirges against our church and
/, our religious PRACTICES are repeated
10 these pages not withdrawing the
juster viewsnow prevailing on these
matters by reason OF savan!s ia
England, Germany, France and
throughout the continent. Weregret
to see American scholarship lag 30
far in the rear Of modern research,
and we 1eplore the publication OF
this cyclopaedia because as book
OF reference in relation 10 many
Catholic topics it is fragmeutary,
misleading aud false.
WHY should this book leave the
reader to infer that the Catholic
+ church discourases learning? Why
should this book insinuate and as.
merit that things OF the mind have
really flourished oaly since the
sixteenth century.
Was it nothing that Tertullian
an Orlsen, an Athanasius. an
Augustine of Hippo upheld the
glories Of new culture, before the
eyes OF decadent Rome?
Was it nothing that the schools
OF Saint Benedict softeued tina
manners OF the Teutonlc barbarian
and sweeping from their northern
haun,s over the ruins OF the Latin
empire?
Was it nothing that a Columbia
in A. d. 565 founded his school iu
Iona, before the ruins Of which
nj later day stood that giaut
scholar of protestant England.
Doctor johnson, with uncovered
head 10 reverent homage for tina
immortal work OF these Irish
Monks?
Was it nothing that in A. D. $50
Columbanus and his fellow-monks
~ left the hourishlng school at Ban
gor, Ireland, aud finding their
mon aster,es at LuxeulI and Bobia
/, spread the light OF learning tn, orgh
France and Italy, planting by
thci, own and their SUCCESSOR
hands the seeds OF knowledge tina
afterwards burst in lull blossom in
the wondrous glories OF the Rem.
issance!
Was it nothing that Charlemagut
upIbuilding the glories Of France
nj the close Of the eighth century
called 10 his eourtthe English monl
Aleuin and his associate scholar:
and by their aid laid deep th
foundations of French learnIn!
which we see surviving to-day in
VA the eaccina ting literature OF thai
country?
Was it nothing that the close q
the ninth century saw the grea,
Alfred place high 10 his court thos
sons OF the Church John Of Saxon,
aDdGrimbaldo Sa ut Omer thr0ugl
whose aid he estab ished through,
out his realm uumoerless schools
for the instruction of the children
Of every English freeman ioundin
y system Of popular education
rightly considered the forerunne
81 our pubic school system Of to
u day.
M Was it nothing that long befor
y The sixteenth century the old churcl
established her Universities at Boil
0ena, at Paris, at Oxford and Cam
bridge where hOCkcd in thousand
the youth of the world to gather TIL
priceless treasures of Llcarning !
theology, Jurisprudence, science, an
letters?
If our enemies in the light of thi
history say that the old chrrc
shackles the human intellect, OF
answer is who is greater in elt
guence than Hibertus Magnus an
Bernard of ClaIrvauy, who
greater in philosophy and theolog
than the angelic doctor, Sail
- Thomas Aquinas. who is great er
jurisprudence than the monk CIR
tian, who is greater in the real III
letters than immortal Dante. who
higher in art than Raphael and All
gelo, and in the sciences Of invel
ton ask of Edison if his great fore
runner Roger Bacon, the EnyliS
friar, was not a man Of wOndro
power.
Notwlthstandingthis array Of wi
'nesses modern cyclopaedia allow
il. lis pages to assert that tile Cath0l
Church has suppressed intelIectu
culture We do moi believe that Il
Cause OF good citizenship is promote
" -, nv M h lea tinnS or thia class The r.