THE

AMERICAN

CATHOLIC QUARTERLY

REVIEW.

Bonum est homini ut eum veritas vincat volentem, quia malum est homini ut eum veritas vin-
cat invitum. Nam ipsa vincat necesse est, sive negantem sive confitentem.

S. AUG. EPIST. ccxxxviii. AD PASCENT.

VOLUME XIII.

FROM JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1888.

PHILADELPHIA:
HARDY & MAHONY,

PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS,

505 CHESTNUT STREET.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHRISTIANITY AND MODERN SCIENCE. By His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons,

True science does not lead away from Christianity, 1; Those who say it does are

but childish declaimers, 2; What Revelation teaches us regarding the material

world, 3; What the wonders of nature suggest to us, 4: The Catholic Church en-

courages and fosters science, 5; Civilization's debt to her, 6; Christians lead in

every branch of art and science, 7; The Bible and science, 8; Interpretation of

Scripture. 9; Unity of the human species, 10; The Church surviving the wreck of

scientific theories, 11.

WHY TASTES DIFFER. By Prof. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., . .

Variations of fashion, 12; Divergences of taste and the doctrine of evolution, 13;

How the actions of animals are directed, 14; Variations that may be inherited, 15;

Truth can be attributed to things absolutely, 16; Consideration of the term goodness,

17; Character of the moral law, 18; Objectivity of beauty, 19; How it differs from truth

and goodness, 20; Objective beauty and human feelings, 21; The faculty of appre-

hending beauty, 23; Accounting for all the varieties of tastes and feelings among

men, 25; Goodness and beauty even in the vilest and lowest things, 26; Effect of

hereditary influences upon tastes, 27.

SOME PECULIARITIES OF THE SYRIAC OFFICE. By Rt. Rev. James A. Cor-
coran, D.D.,

Great antiquity of the Breviary used in the Syrian Church, 28: Its relation to

Eutychianism, 29; In what the value of the liturgy of the Eastern heretics con-

sists, 30; Present relations of the Church to the Eastern Christians, 31; The Church

and the early heresies, 33; Some Eastern liturgical gems, 34; Testimony to St.

Peter's primacy, 35; Examples from the Maronites' office, 36; A title used by the

Medieval Latin Church, 38; The Syrian Church thoroughly imbued with the

Catholic spirit. 39; Archbiscop Carroll's prayer, 40; It is neither good nor safe to

try to be wiser than the Church, 41.

THE SACERDOTAL JUBILEE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIII. By Rev.
Henry A. Brann, D.D.,.

The universal homage which the Pope's jubilee called forth, 42; Pius IX. and Leo

XIII, 43; Difference of the circumstances surrounding them, 44; Respect for the

office as an outcome of admiration for the man, 45; Now more than ever do all

roads lead to Rome, 46; The Piedmontese usurpation must end, 47; The Catholic

world will insist on restitution being made, 48; Catholics of the United States are

exceptionally interested in the issue, 49: Leo preparing the way for the restora-

tion of the temporal power, 50; Lesson of the homage paid to the Sovereign Pon-

tiff, 51.

THE CENTRAL ERROR OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY. By Rev. R. F. Clarke,
S.J.,

The process of abstraction and the formation of universal ideas, 52; Certain pro-

cesses which are often mistaken for apprehension, 53: The faculties of sense which

are peculiar to man, 55; The concept, or result of the process of apprehension, 56;

Why our intellect requires the aid of palpable symbols, 58; Distinctions between

images of objects of which we speak or think, 59; The modern theory opening the

door upon a boundless vista of contradiction and skepticism, 61; The common

phantasms that animals have, 63; Catholics should guard the touchstone of a true

philosophical system, 64; A concrete example, 65; The fatal defect of most mod-

ern philosophers, 66; Thought as related to both the intellect and the imagination,

67; Comparison of the nominalist and conceptionalist theories, 68; The one ques-

tion that both leave unsolved, 70.

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE BIRTHPLACE AND CLOISTERED HOME OF THOMAS

À KEMPIS. By John Gilmary Shea, LL D.,

The authorship of "The Following of Christ," 72; Claims in favor of Chancellor

Gerson and Abbot Gersen, 73; Dr. Cruise's "Notes of a Visit" to the scenes in

which Thomas à Kempis's life was spent, 75; Characteristics of Thomas à Kem-

pis's writings, 76; How his life was spent, 77; Visiting the old town of Kempen,

78; Memories of Thomas in and around Deventer, 79; A priceless treasure kept in

an humble receptacle, 80; Authenticity of the relics of Thomas à Kempis, 81.

INDIVIDUALISM AND EXCLUSIVE OWNERSHIP. By James A. Cain,

A communistic ideal has sprung up in all ages, 82; The supreme ideal which the

Christian Church proposes for man's attainment, 83; Origin of exclusive owner-

ship. 84; How Henry George defends Communism, 85; How the Scholastic Phi-

losopher treated the subject, 86; Law in accordance with the dictates of right rea-

son, 87; Private ownership a product of human legislation, 88; Mutability in the