the outcome of a profound and laborious acquisition of all the well-established results of the positive sciences, is condemned, even within a few weeks of its publication, after examination by people who are entire strangers to historical research. Let the Loisy case be our witness. Reviews established with the sole design of treating religious questions objectively, of welcoming the judgments of persons who are not Catholics, but men of assured scientific knowledge, and of thus proving that religion is not the enemy of science, are regarded as antireligious; and already there is talk of their condemnation. It is said that the publication of a Syllabus,[1] destined to arrest the modern scientific-religious movement, is imminent. And to think, Holy Father, that you still groan under
- ↑ While these sheets are going through the press, the long-expected syllabus of theological errors has appeared, comprising sixty-five condemned propositions.—Tr.
