A nation nourished upon Science, no longer believing in mysteries and dogmas, in a compensatory system of reward and punishment, is a nation whose faith is for ever dead: and without faith Catholicism cannot be.

Therein is the blade of the knife, the knife which falls and severs.

If one century, if two centuries be needed, Science will take them.

She alone is eternal.

It is pure _naivete_ to say that reason is not contrary to faith.