DOI issue:
October 10, 1874
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16939#0162
THE SKETCHING SEASON.
Appreciative Rustic. “There! if I could ‘Map’ like that there, I’d chuck up everythink ! ”
POLEMICS IN THE PAPERS.
There is nothing like logic, Mr. Punch—nothing at all like it in
most arguments.
Archbishop Manning is reported to have said that his co-
religionists were now passing through “ the most enormous and
hypocritical persecution” that had been known since the time of the
Emperor Julian.
Hereon “ A Perplexed Protestant,” in the Times, suggests that it
would he interesting to see Dr. Manning’s “method applied to
such events as the persecution of the Albigenses, or the Massacre of
St. Bartholomew, or the treatment of the Huguenots generally in
France, or the policy of the Emperor Ferdinand during the Thirty
Years’ War, or the conduct of the Duke op Savoy to the Yandois in
the time of Cromwell, or the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.”.
Yery good, on the one hand. But there is something to be said
on the other.
It may be questioned if the events above enumerated ever hap-
pened. It may be denied that they were persecutions. It may be
said that faith is one thing, heresy another, and that Protestants
cannot possibly be persecuted though they may be executed; and
serve them right! Therefore, it may be argued, the Ultramontanes
are the only people who have ever undergone any persecution at
all, either since the Emperor Julian’s time or before it.
Another Times' Correspondent, the Rev. W. F. Wilkinson,
quotes a declaration prefixed in 1742 by two Jesuit Fathers to an
edition of the Third Book of Newton’s Principia. It expresses
“ assent to the Decrees passed by the Sovereign Pontiff which
deny the motion of the earth.” Mr. Wilkinson remarks :—
“This proves two things; first that successive Popes have, by their
infallible authority, contradicted the fact of the earth’s motion ; and secondly,
that all Roman Catholics are bound to submit to their authority, and to pro-
fess to disbelieve this most certain fact.”
Arguing the same point with Mr. Wilkinson, in the same jour-
nal, a “Cantab ” tries to prove that a certain “unlucky Yirgilius,”
an Irishman, who, in the eighth century, taught that the earth was
a globe, and that perhaps there were antipodes, had those theories
condemned, and himself sentenced to recant them by Pope Zachary,
ex cathedra. A “Cantab” quotes Hardouxn to prove that In-
fallibility thus made a mistake.
But, it may be replied, perhaps Hardouin does not give Pope
Zachary’s exact words. However, suppose he does. Infallibility
cannot deny any truth. If any scientific truth was in fact ever
denied by a Pope, that Pope, by denying it, in so far proved himself
fallible. Therefore he proved himself, for the nonce, not to have
spoken ex cathedra. You cannot be sure that a past Pope has
decided any question ex cathedra except in the sense defined by the
Pope for the time being, speaking, and declaring that he speaks,
mind you, ex cathedra himself. So don’t say that any Pope ever
authoritatively denied the motion of the earth.
Always accustomed to look at both sides of a question, and impar-
tially balance all the arguments pro and con., believe me, Mr. Punchy
your unprejudiced old and familiar acquaintance,
Audi Alteram Partem.
A RETIRED LION.
Though no longer, alas, doth the Royal Brute stand
On the Percies’ dismantled abode in the Strand,
Not destroyed, removed only, Northumberland’s Lion
Stands, again reared aloft, on the Palace of Sion.
On that height in the distance commanding a view
Of the spacious Thames valley, ’twixt Richmond and Kew,
Whensoever our way by the River we wend,
We shall still be enabled to see our old friend.
Now retired from the crowd and the traffic of Town,
Upon meadow and woodland and stream he looks down,
Out of reach of ignoble and mean-minded men. .
Board of Yandals, you ne’er can molest him again!
“ Faded Flowers.”—The Wall-flowers in a London ball-room.
Appreciative Rustic. “There! if I could ‘Map’ like that there, I’d chuck up everythink ! ”
POLEMICS IN THE PAPERS.
There is nothing like logic, Mr. Punch—nothing at all like it in
most arguments.
Archbishop Manning is reported to have said that his co-
religionists were now passing through “ the most enormous and
hypocritical persecution” that had been known since the time of the
Emperor Julian.
Hereon “ A Perplexed Protestant,” in the Times, suggests that it
would he interesting to see Dr. Manning’s “method applied to
such events as the persecution of the Albigenses, or the Massacre of
St. Bartholomew, or the treatment of the Huguenots generally in
France, or the policy of the Emperor Ferdinand during the Thirty
Years’ War, or the conduct of the Duke op Savoy to the Yandois in
the time of Cromwell, or the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.”.
Yery good, on the one hand. But there is something to be said
on the other.
It may be questioned if the events above enumerated ever hap-
pened. It may be denied that they were persecutions. It may be
said that faith is one thing, heresy another, and that Protestants
cannot possibly be persecuted though they may be executed; and
serve them right! Therefore, it may be argued, the Ultramontanes
are the only people who have ever undergone any persecution at
all, either since the Emperor Julian’s time or before it.
Another Times' Correspondent, the Rev. W. F. Wilkinson,
quotes a declaration prefixed in 1742 by two Jesuit Fathers to an
edition of the Third Book of Newton’s Principia. It expresses
“ assent to the Decrees passed by the Sovereign Pontiff which
deny the motion of the earth.” Mr. Wilkinson remarks :—
“This proves two things; first that successive Popes have, by their
infallible authority, contradicted the fact of the earth’s motion ; and secondly,
that all Roman Catholics are bound to submit to their authority, and to pro-
fess to disbelieve this most certain fact.”
Arguing the same point with Mr. Wilkinson, in the same jour-
nal, a “Cantab ” tries to prove that a certain “unlucky Yirgilius,”
an Irishman, who, in the eighth century, taught that the earth was
a globe, and that perhaps there were antipodes, had those theories
condemned, and himself sentenced to recant them by Pope Zachary,
ex cathedra. A “Cantab” quotes Hardouxn to prove that In-
fallibility thus made a mistake.
But, it may be replied, perhaps Hardouin does not give Pope
Zachary’s exact words. However, suppose he does. Infallibility
cannot deny any truth. If any scientific truth was in fact ever
denied by a Pope, that Pope, by denying it, in so far proved himself
fallible. Therefore he proved himself, for the nonce, not to have
spoken ex cathedra. You cannot be sure that a past Pope has
decided any question ex cathedra except in the sense defined by the
Pope for the time being, speaking, and declaring that he speaks,
mind you, ex cathedra himself. So don’t say that any Pope ever
authoritatively denied the motion of the earth.
Always accustomed to look at both sides of a question, and impar-
tially balance all the arguments pro and con., believe me, Mr. Punchy
your unprejudiced old and familiar acquaintance,
Audi Alteram Partem.
A RETIRED LION.
Though no longer, alas, doth the Royal Brute stand
On the Percies’ dismantled abode in the Strand,
Not destroyed, removed only, Northumberland’s Lion
Stands, again reared aloft, on the Palace of Sion.
On that height in the distance commanding a view
Of the spacious Thames valley, ’twixt Richmond and Kew,
Whensoever our way by the River we wend,
We shall still be enabled to see our old friend.
Now retired from the crowd and the traffic of Town,
Upon meadow and woodland and stream he looks down,
Out of reach of ignoble and mean-minded men. .
Board of Yandals, you ne’er can molest him again!
“ Faded Flowers.”—The Wall-flowers in a London ball-room.