Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . nd thatGod must do what He has done in no other departmentof human knowledge and interests. Civil institutions andgovernments have a powerful influence on human happi-ness and progress. God has simply ordained society byconstituting man a social being, and endowing him withreason and the capacity of profiting by experience. He hasnot unmistakably pointed out to him the best form ofgovernment, but has left the nations to work out theproblem for themselves, and develop themselves by sodoing. Nature abounds i
Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . nd thatGod must do what He has done in no other departmentof human knowledge and interests. Civil institutions andgovernments have a powerful influence on human happi-ness and progress. God has simply ordained society byconstituting man a social being, and endowing him withreason and the capacity of profiting by experience. He hasnot unmistakably pointed out to him the best form ofgovernment, but has left the nations to work out theproblem for themselves, and develop themselves by sodoing. Nature abounds in substances and powers adaptedto promote, by the right knowledge and use of them, thewell-being of men. God has provided no infallible teach-ers of science and art. He has simply placed man, endowedwith the necessary powers, in the midst of this wealth ofnature, to subdue it under his dominion, and He has sodone as a Latin poet says, acuere mortalia cord a—to sharpenhuman wits. Thus from analogy we may expect Him todeal with man in regard to moral and religious truth. iiii r^1 ] z. Execution of Sir John Oldcastle. Pajre 517. The cause of the failure of what we call Catholic educa-tion is in the fact that we educate not for the present or thefuture but for the past. Catholic education has its ideal ofperfection in the past, and it resists as un-Catholic, irreligiousand opposed to God, the tendencies of modern civilization. Inother words we fail to recognize human progress. [229] A. O. Brownsons Quarterly Review (Catholic). PETER NOT THE CHURCH. 229 He will furnish the mine and the requisite powers, andthen, whosoever will seek for wisdom, as for hid treasure,shall find it. If any man is willing to do His will, he shallknow of His doctrine. Love of truth is better than know-ledge of it, and search after truth may tend more tomoral and spiritual culture and progress than even thepossession of it. Just here lies one fundamental distinc-tion between the Roman Catholic and the Pro
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