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Show j ST. GEORGE MOV ART. I Up to this time we have refrained from commenting on the untimely dentil of the distinguished English scientist whose name heads thta article, arti-cle, for the circumstances that surrounded sur-rounded his death were inexpressibly sad. Dr. Mivort died, nominally, outside out-side the Church, but we believe at heart he was inside the Church .?pirit. There was, it seems to us, a personal ( feeling that acted on a man of his nature na-ture in a manner that time would have softened to a degrees) at least compatible compat-ible with his earlier professions, j He undoubtedly deeply resented the j reply which Cardinal Vaughn made to j his request for information and it j must forever be a cause of deep regret j that the Cardinal Archbishop of West-j West-j minster did not deal personally with j Dr. Mivart, insitead of referring him to a more or less obscure priest. But be ! j this as it may, we hope and pray that j j St. George Mivart died in a spirit that j i will redound to his eternal salvation. I I The following estimate of this man J distinguished in the world of science j i if from the pen of a Catholic and pub- j jlished in the London Outlook: I ! "An interesting chapter in the hir;- tory of Roman Catholicism ends with the death of Dr. St. George Mivart. I Some thirty years ago his opportunity 1 came to him. The Vatican Council had 1 aJienateei some and chilled many: (he) great Achilles disapproved from his ' tent at Edgbaston. the Origin of Spe- I oies was a fashionable gospel; and men, i not otherwise dull, wondered if Pius! IX was to be the last of the popes. Grotesque as it seem?, many really believed be-lieved that the old creeds were dying,.' and we were solemnly reminded that we 'lived in a scientific age.' Mivart appeared as the providential man to fiave orthodoxy in its last trenches. He started with the advantage of being able to understand his opponents.' posi tion. Sweeping away the folly of Liberatore and his like (who has-dis-mis?ed the new theories as absurd). Mivart adopted scientific methods in his Genesis of Species, his Origin of Human Reason, his Man and Apes, hiss J Contemporary Evolution, and was soon I recognized as a first-rate fighting man. He examined, weighed, pleaded, re futed: brought, his. immense special knowledge into action; picked small holes, in his enemies' armor; did all that destructive vriticism can d ). His pertinacity and skill-were as constant as his courage and courtesy. With characteristic candor and generosity. Darwin accepted many corrections on minor points, and warmly praised his critic's ability. Delighted at seeing the foe met on his own ground, and Magnifying Mag-nifying a series of skirmishes into so many pitched battles. Catholics hailed the new St. George as an authentic champion; a papal degree was conferred confer-red on him, and the reconciliation between be-tween science and religion was regard- ! ed as complete. During the reaction which followed the golden age when Newman, Alimonde and Gibbons were' made Cardinals, Mivart grew more and ' more uneasy; at last he disowned the! official hermcneutics and was himself j driven out into the desert. There wa,j mismanagement and .indiscretion on both sides. Illness and age betrayed I Mivart into saying more than was de- j fensible. and the witch-smellers went i upon his track. j |