[269] "De Genesi ad Litt.," lib. v., cap. v., No. 14 in Ben. Edition, voi. iii. p. 186. [270] Lib. cit., cap. xxii., No. 44. [271] Lib. cit., "De Trinitate," lib. iii., cap. viii, No. 14. [272] Lib. cit., cap. ix., No. 16. [273] St. Thomas, Summa, i., quest. 67, art. 4, ad 3. [274] Primae Partis, vol. ii., quest. 74, art. 2. [275] Lib. cit., quest. 71, art. 1. [276] Lib. cit., quest. 45, art. 8. [277] _Vide_ In Genesim Comment, cap. i. [278] Roger Bacon, Opus tertium, c. ix. p. 27, quoted in the _Rambler_ for 1859, vol. xii. p. 375. [279] See _Nature_, June and July, 1870. Those who, like Professors Huxley and Tyndall, do not accept his conclusions, none the less agree with him in principle, though they limit the evolution of the organic world from the inorganic to a very remote period of the world's history. (See Professor Huxley's address to the British Association at Liverpool, 1870, p. 17.) [280] "Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic," vol. i. Lecture ii., p. 40. [281] In the same way that an undue cultivation of any one kind of knowledge is prejudicial to philosophy. Mr. James Martineau well observes, "Nothing is more common than to see maxims, which are unexceptionable as the assumptions of particular sciences, coerced into the service of a universal philosophy, and so turned into instruments of mischief and distortion. That "we can know nothing but phenomena,"--that "causation is simply constant priority,"--that "men are governed invariably by their interests," are examples of rules allowable as dominant hypotheses in physics or political economy, but exercising a desolating tyranny when thrust on to the throne of universal empire. He who seizes upon these and similar maxims, and carries them in triumph on his banner, may boast of his escape from the uncertainties of metaphysics, but is himself all the while the unconscious victim of their very vulgarest deception." ("Essays," Second Series, _A Plea for Philosophical Studies_, p. 421.) [282] Lecky's "History of Rationalism," vol. i. p. 73. [283] "Lectures on University Subjects," by J. H. Newman, D.D., p. 322. [284] Loc. cit. p. 324. [285] Thus Professor Tyndall, in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ of June 15, 1868, speaking of physical science, observes, "The _logical feebleness_ of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation." [286] By this it is not, of course, meant to deny that the existence of God can be demonstrated so as to demand the assent of the intellect taken, so to speak, by itself. [287] See some excellent remarks in the Rev. Dr. Newman's Parochial Sermons--the new edition (1869), vol. i. p. 211. [288] _American Journal of Science_, July 1860, p. 143, quoted in Dr. Asa Gray's pamphlet, p. 47. [289] See _The Academy_ for October 1869, No. 1, p. 13.