sufficient proof is forthcoming to establish it as a
fact: it ought not, therefore, to be spoken of as other than a theory,
nor proclaimed as fact."

Such constraint when rightly regarded is not or would not be a shackling
of the human intellect, but a kindly and intelligent guidance of those
unable to form a proper conclusion themselves. Such is the idea of the
Church in the matter with which we have been dealing.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 23: _Darwiniana_, p. 147.]

[Footnote 24: See, for example, his _Life and Letters_,
i., 307.]

[Footnote 25: _Hume_, _English Men of Letters Series_, p. 135.]

[Footnote 26: Of course, it may be argued, no Fellow need have
applied for an _imprimatur_; he did it _ex majori cantela_ as
the lawyers say. This may be so, but the same applies to the
ecclesiastical _imprimatur_.]

[Footnote 27: The review from which the following quotations
are made appeared in _Nature_ on January 24, 1889.]

[Footnote 28: Vol. ii., p. 113.]

[Footnote 29: _Galileo and His Condemnation_, Catholic Truth
Society of England.]

V. SCIENCE AND THE WAR

Amongst various important matters now brought to a sharper focus in the
public eye, few, if any, require more careful attention than that which
is concerned with science, its value, its position, its teachings, and
how it should be taught. No one who has followed the domestic
difficulties due to our neglect of the warnings of scientific men can
fail to see how we have had to suffer because of the lax conduct of
those responsible for these things in the past.

Within the first few weeks after the war broke out--to take one
example--every medical man was the recipient of a document telling him
of the expected shortage in a number of important drugs and suggesting
the substitutes which he might employ. It was a timely warning; but it
need never have been issued if we had not allowed the manufacture of
drugs, and especially those of the so-called "synthetic" group, to drift
almost entirely into the hands of the Badische Aniline Fabrik, and
kindred firms in Germany. This difficulty, now partly overcome, is one
which never would have arisen but for the deaf ear turned to the
warnings of the scientific chemists. British pharmaceutical chemists,
with one or two exceptions, had been relying upon foreign sources not
only for synthetic drugs but actually for the raw materials of many of
their preparations--such, for example,