Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-21
RESIDENT MecAeE REPLIES TO
80 PRESIDENT ELIOT.

Very Rev. Francis Xavier McCabe.
president OF De Paul University, one
Of the most brilliant and powerful pull.
pit orators In the United States, made
most eloquent reply to the remark:
able address or Dr. Charles w. Eliot,
President Emeritus Of Harvard, en-.
titled Reasons Why Our Ideas Of God
Are Rapidly Changing" In which
President Eliot took the stand that
since the -. publication OF Darwin's
Origin of Species" and Descent Of
Man." men OF science had knocked
creeds and dogmas and churches into
cooked hat and that the world had
a new hand made religion Of It's own.
We regret that we have not the space
to publish the fun text of Father Nc.
Cabes reply to Or. Eliot. but the fol.
lowing extracts from II are repro.
duced: Y
THE doctor says that as rule
men OF science have scant respect for
tradition or for any authority which
IL founded on age or acceptance by
former generations. They are In.
tensely, individualistic, and have little
sympathy, with the privileged classes
or with the traditional or consecrated
systems Or crystallized or deposited
truth, Again the doctors provincial.
ism+.4we do not want to say narrow.
minded -bigotry--is responsible for
leading. him into false assertions. Any
tSrG ~ the history oSscience will tell
the doctor that he ought. to take q
days:ioH and get Acquainted with the.
founders OF the various sciences Of
the present day. III, he took the trou.
BILE to. do. this he would without doubt
find a. galaxy. Of the finest churchmen,
both lay, and ecclesiastical, who were
INSTRUMENTAL not only in laying the
foundations OF, modern science, but In
bringing them to q very high degree
Of perfection. = . ,,,y,.g.',, !. =,
LAS a rule men of science. the doc
tor says, 'liavexnQ, faith in- magic or
Miracles None hut fools have faith
In magic: wise men believe tn miras
cles. They may have u passion for
truth and fact; 'bntsscientists as well
as all other students are, constantly In.
dulging In speculation, Dor every ex.
pertinent where, the. outcome Is not
known beforehand: tsN a Fsleculation as
to results. 1y,.. a:r r. e.3SF
Men OF true, science have always
drawn nearer to God In the study
III even the natural sciences, and
have always concinsively shown that
science and revealed religion are In
perfect harmony They have never
made science their God as the Doctor
and his kind have, butshave, by their
deep filth In God been able to become
the greater scientists Pasteur, who
revolutionixed the whole science oi
chemistry and conferreda by his won
derful research work more good upon
the human race In one day than q
thousand Eliots could confer In life
time, was first and above everything
q simple child OF the Church. So We
might 60 on and mention q host Of
others. founders and leaders In the
natural sciences. that were first ant
always men Of deep religious cOnvic
| ton az members of that old yet always
new Church at which the provincial
istic President Emeritus of Harvard
Is constantly casting his insinuati0ns
The grandest monuments Of literature
put forth during the last nineteel
hundred years are nothing more thar
the scientific discussions and presen
tations of religious truth as expressed
In those Christian dogmas which THU
self.cOnstituted authority dismisse
with q sheer.
He makes the astounding state
ment that In the last four hundred
years the advance OF thu vh6ea rae
has been toward .freeaum v1pi1k Aorts
In the family, In Industries and In gov
ernment-m0re and more freedom TO
the child, the woman. and the man
and the two great servants OF free
dom have been democracy and SC
ence.' Again we say democracy an
science would both like to take ra
at DR.. Eliot for blackening their char
acters.
"The freedom of all sorts of whic
the doctor prates In the above asset
ton means an unlimited license, an
nothing more. It Is absolutely falls,
and statistics will prove It, that tn
child is more free, that the woman
more free. that man Is more free, Il
day than he was at any time In tn
fifteen hundred years before thes
last four centuries. Why today. q
the elimination Of the principles q
down Just four hundred years ago. th
right to live Is daily denied to til
unborn child, and murderers and mu
| darassaa walk the Rtraata with In