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Show Catholicity and Brains. Dr. Henry Austin Adams made a very favorable Impression on last Tuesday Tues-day night at the Academy of Music, uF1,0"' D- C" 'lvith his lecture on Catholicity and Brains." His thesis f vV1?4 .not only were Catholicity and high intellectual attainments not Incompatible, but that an historical survey would reveal the fact that the ! best part of the world's work in art letters and industrial achievement ha 1 been done by Catholics. In support of his contention, he cited such men as Dante in. poetry: St. Thomas Aquinas in philosophy: Haydn Mozart. Beethoven. Bee-thoven. Palestrina and Gounod in music; mu-sic; the great masters of the Italian school in art; Copernicus, in astronomy astrono-my . Galvani. Ampere and Volta in electricity. Pasteur, in biology, 'and Roetgen. wh? made the last great sclenting scl-enting discovery. |
