He cannot claim infallibility in religious affairs, and decline it in scientific.

Infallibility embraces all things.

It implies omniscience.

If it holds good for theology, it necessarily holds good for science.

How is it possible to coordinate the infallibility of the papacy with the well-known errors into which it has fallen?
Does it not, then, become needful to reject the claim of the papacy to the employment of coercion in the maintenance of its opinions; to repudiate utterly the declaration that "the Inquisition is an urgent necessity in view of the unbelief of the present age," and in the name of human nature to protest loudly against the ferocity and terrorism of that institution?
Has not conscience inalienable rights?
An impassable and hourly-widening gulf intervenes between Catholicism and the spirit of the age.