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LONDON: BURNS, OATES, & CO., 17 & 18, PORTMAN STREET,
AND 63 PATERNOSTER ROW.
DERBY: RICHARDSON & SONS. DUBLIN: JAMES DUFFY; W. B. KELLY; MCGLASHAN & GILL.
BALTIMORE: KELLY, PIET CO. MONTREAL, CANADA: SADLER & co.
1872.
CONTENTS.
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ART. I.-UNSECTARIANISM AND SCIENTIFIC SecuLARISM.
Tendency of intellectual error to produce national decay England now entering on a social transformation. Plans for the education and physical amelioration of the people What share can physical science bear in such education and amelior-
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Statements of Professor Tyndall
Statements of Mr. Herbert Spencer
Statements of Professor Huxley
Statements of other and inferior writers.
Summary of their teaching.
Professor Huxley's avowal of intolerance
Unsectarian Education.
On what ground can antitheists maintain the supreme importance of
truth?.
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ART. II.-S. MARY MAGDALENE IN THE GOSPELS.
The received Catholic view, that S. Mary Magdalene is identical with
Mary of Bethany and the peccatrix of Luke vii.
On exclusively scriptural grounds this view holds
Two distinct acts of anointing
Mary of Bethany identical with the peccatrix
The peccatrix identical with Mary Magdalene
Mary of Bethany identical with Mary Magdalene.
Negative evidence of scripture
Similarity of interior character
Conjectural harmony of scripture statements
Weight of the Church's authority in the question .
Importance of Catholics cultivating scriptural criticism.
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Art. IV.-REPLY TO MR. RENOUF BY F. BOTTALLA.–ORTHODOXY OF
POPE HONORIUS I,
Mr. Renouf's first thesis
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The doctrine of one will
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The letter of Sergius
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The first letter of Pope Honorius
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The second letter .
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Contemporary witnesses
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Mr. Renouf's charges against Abbot John
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The Council of Lateran
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The Fathers and the Monothelite doctrine
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ART. V.-THE PRIESTHOOD AT IRISH ELECTIONS.
The question to be here discussed .
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Essential difference in Ireland between priests' and landlords' influence. 104
Landlords' influence in Great Britain
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Legitimate and illegitimate influence
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The priests are the Catholic voter's most reasonably trusted guides.
Political immorality of some Irish landlords .
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Has any priest ever urged any elector to vote against his genuine con-
viction?
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The voter's duty of breaking any promise he may have made to vote
against his conviction
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The confessional.
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Regrettable facts which may have to be admitted.
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ART. VI.-DR. BAIN ON THE RELATIVITY OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.
The law of Relativity
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Summary of Dr. Bain's Philosophy
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Counter argument.
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Our knowledge of the Relative
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