If she leaves, and no doubt will always leave a smaller and smaller domain to mystery, and if supposition may always strive to explain that mystery, it is none the less certain that she ruins, and with each successive hour will add to the ruin of the ancient hypotheses, those which crumble away before the acquired truths.

And Catholicism is in the position of those ancient hypotheses, and will be in it yet more thoroughly to-morrow.

Like all religions it is, at the bottom, but an explanation of the world, a superior social and political code, intended to bring about the greatest possible sum of peace and happiness on earth.

This code which embraces the universality of things thenceforth becomes human, and mortal like everything that is human.

One cannot put it on one side and say that it exists on one side by itself, whilst Science does the same on the other.
Science is total and has already shown Catholicism that such is the case, and will show it again and again by compelling it to repair the breaches incessantly effected in its ramparts till the day of victory shall come with the final assault of resplendent truth.