THE

AMERICAN

CATHOLIC QUARTERLY

REVIEW.

Bonum est homini ut eum veritas volentem, quia malum est homini ut eum veritas vincat invitum. Nam ipsa vincat necesse est, sive negantem sive confitentem.

S. AUG. EPIST. ccxxxviii. AD PASCENT.

VOLUME X.

FROM JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1885.

PHILADELPHIA:
HARDY & MAHONY,

PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS,

505 CHESTNUT STREET.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE PASTORAL LETTER OF THE THIRD PLENARY COUNCIL OF BALTI-

MORE. By John Gilmary Shea, LL.D.,

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Character of the Council and of its Pastoral, 1; Organization of the Church in

America, 2: The power of God is manifestly with her, 3; How the Fathers of the

Council look on the present and the future, 4; The gigantic task now before the

Church, 5; The Church's condemnation of error, 6; Her teaching and the temporal

power, 7; The Pastoral on the Sovereign Pontiff, 8; Education of the priesthood,

9: Absence of regular parishes, 11; The priests' hardest duty in this country, 12;

Religion in education, 13; Christian marriage, 15; Catholic history, the Bible and

science, 16; Forbidden societies and Catholic associations, 17; General character

of the Pastoral, 18.

WHAT IS A LIBERAL EDUCATION? By Rev. Thomas Hughes, S.J.,

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Greek and Latin at Harvard, 18: Views of President Eliot and others, 19; Confused

notions of what constitutes education, 20; Boys should receive a general educa-

tion, not a special training, 21; What Matthew Arnold and Professor Huxley

think, 23; Of M. Taine and his allies. 24; Importance of the classic literatures in

education, 25; Advantage of the language being a dead one, 27; The scientists'

principles are-Utility, Money, Convenience, 29; Their pleas for the new and

special branches, 30; A word in particular about analytical mathematics, 31; The

natural sciences, 32; Schools in Prussia, 33: Other points of the scientists' special

pleading, 34; Close connection of all the sciences, 35.

ST. THOMAS'S LATEST CRITIC, By Brother Barbas,

How Mr. Davidson may do good indirectly, 36; His "innumerable multitude," 37;

Analyzing it, 38; Mr. Davidson's likes and dislikes in philosophy, 39; “Tyrannical'

influence of scholasticism over intelligence, 40; Mr. Davidson thinks Christianity

has blighted everything except himself, 41; Aristotle and St. Thomas on matter

and form, 42; Bodies and their constituent elements, 44; Awful consequences of

Mr. Davidson's lack of intelligence, 46; Some philosophical distinctions, 47; Sen-

sation and sensible representation, 48; Object and subject of knowledge, 49; What

knowledge is, 50; St. Thomas does not teach what Mr. Davidson says he does, 51.

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SOME ASPECTS OF MODERN UNBELIEF. By Rev. R. F. Clarke, S.J., . . . 51

Doubt has a certain attractiveness, 51; Doubters may act on a sound and reason-

able principle, 52; Cases in which suspension of judgment is inadmissible, 53:

Man's obligation to free himself from doubt, 54; A test of unfaith's motives, 55;

Unbelief and the education of the young, 56; The doubter in another difficulty,

57; Unfaith and the characteristics of a tenable hypothesis, 58; The central objec-

tion of all professors of unfaith, 59; The respective characters of the adherents and

adversaries of Christianity, 61; The position of skepticism, 62, How the Agnostic

contradicts himself, 63; Judgment should not remain suspended concerning

Theism and Christianity, 64.

THE CORRELATION OF AGNOSTICISM AND POSITIVISM.

By A. de G.,

Conflict of the two most prominent schools of modern English thought, 65;

The one naturally contradicts the other, 66; The paths which they respec-

tively follow, 67; One point on which Mr. Spencer is right, 68; Their divergence

of opinion quite apparent, 69; The question of God's existence, 70; Man's three

great problems, 71; All that the most enlightened scientist can tell us, 72; What

Positivism attempts. 73; A necessary constituent of a beautiful character, 74; Mr.

Harrison on religion, 75; And on the need of this age, 77; His views analyzed, 78;

What Agnosticism insists upon, 81; How the Spencerian and Harrisonian theories

are correlated, 82; The tendency of our age, 83.

MR. WEBB'S HISTORY OF CATHOLICITY IN KENTUCKY. By Rev. A. J.

Harnist,..

The Church in the United States a century ago, 81; Literature of the early Catholic

history of Kentucky, 85; Mr. Webb's qualifications, 86; Arrangement of his mate-

rials, 87: Peculiarities of the Church's growth in Kentucky, 88; The first priests,

and Bishop Flaget's work, 89; Pen-picture of Bishop David, 90; His training of

priests, 91; High schools and religious communities, 92; Mr. Webb's two favorite

priests, 93; Cardinal Newman's appreciation of Mr. Webb's work, 94.

FREE THOUGHT IN NEW ENGLAND. By Rev. H. A. Brann, D.D.,

The New Englanders have a peculiarly interesting history, 95; New England legis-

lation pervaded by Mosaic severity, 97: Severity of the Colonial laws against heresy,

98; But the lawgivers were deeply religious and austerely moral, 99; What this

abnormal severity led to, 100; Calvin's predestination doctrine, 101; Revolt against it

in Holland, 102; Edwards' principles pushed to their logical conclusion, 103; Mod-

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