The Alliance failed to perceive that modern Science is the legitimate sister--indeed, it is the twin-sister--of the Reformation.

They were begotten together and were born together.

It failed to perceive that, though there is an impossibility of bringing into coalition the many conflicting sects, they may all find in science a point of connection; and that, not a distrustful attitude toward it, but a cordial union with it, is their true policy.
It remains now to offer some reflections on this "Constitution of the Catholic Faith," as defined by the Vatican Council.
For objects to present themselves under identical relations to different persons, they must be seen from the same point of view.

In the instance we are now considering, the religious man has his own especial station; the scientific man another, a very different one.

It is not for either to demand that his co-observer shall admit that the panorama of facts spread before them is actually such as it appears to him to be.
The Dogmatic Constitution insists on the admission of this postulate, that the Roman Church acts under a divine commission, specially and exclusively delivered to it.