At the outset it must be said that there can be no such thing as a Catholic Philosophy any more than there can be a Catholic Science. But there are philosophers who in the matter of religion profess certain dogmatic beliefs, just as there are chemists or medical doctors who are at the same time Catholics, or Protestants, or Jews.

Yet Draper, in his Conflict between Religion and Science, written in 1874, makes the following statement : ‘Then it has come to this, that Roman Christianity and Science are recognized by their respective adherents as being absolutely incompatible; they cannot exist together; one must yield to the other; mankind must make its choice—it cannot have both

Again, Huxley, in one of his Lay Sermons, writes of ‘our great antagonist—I speak as a man of Science —the Roman Catholic Church, the one spiritual organisation which is able to resist, and must as a matter of life and death, resist, the progress of science and modern civilisation.’ It is such statements as these that have provoked Dr. Windle to write his valuable little book, The Catholic Church and its Reactions with Science.