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Rh Induction; because "he who can understand the principle of Induction will be for ever preserved from atheism and materialism." (This implies a far deeper acquaintance with mathematical philosophy than is necessary to become a Senior Wrangler.) As for Astronomy, Gratry thinks the ignorance of the public about so grand a Science very strange. He mentions successively, Physics, Physiology, Geology, Geography, History, and Moral Science; of each of which he requires the cultivated man to know considerably more than a mere smattering. Finally comes Theology. Gratry is tolerant to those who differ from him in opinion; but he does not understand how it can happen "that every educated man does not know by heart the Articles of the Christian faith.

"If you are Christians these Articles contain the details of your faith. ... If you are enemies of Christianity, take the trouble to know what are the statements against which you are fighting; your blows will thus be dealt less at random."

Gratry has here laid bare one of the principal causes of the mental confusion of our time. No man, to whatever denomination he belongs, ought to be considered educated who does not know what are the essential principles both of Mosaic teaching and of the Catholic Faith. What, for instance, does European History mean, to one who has no clear conception of the nature of those thoughts and feelings which have moulded our civilization?

But the question naturally presents itself:—If we are to spend a large portion of our time in listening to the Voice of the Unseen, instead of reading, how can such