Cardinal Wiseman: "We cannot shut our eyes to the aim or tendency of modem science which is to demand, not equality, but supremacy; not a fair balance, but a loaded scale, whenever it seems to come into competition with the claims of revelation. The moment the two seem to contend, in disagreement, for the belief of man, science at once exacts that all else should give way; and, unfortunately, too many yield at once, and surrender at discretion. The stump of a fossil tree, the bones of an extinct animal, a broken skull found in some inexplicable place, but requiring a solution equally from our assailants; nay, a potsherd, a sea-shell, the piles of a lake-village, the rudiments of stone instruments, all things—anything is heavy enough to turn the scale in favor of what is called reason. And we are ridiculed as fearing or opposed to science, as narrow-minded and hoodwinked bigots, for not at once adopting this confused mass of immature geognosy, and sacrificing, in honor of our acceptance, whatsoever has been to us venerable, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely. No, if science, as now read by too many, says true, there was no time when God could have created man; no moment in which He could have impressed on him His own divine image. The human race, according to this version, springs from some scarcely organized rudiment of matter, which gradually went on, through millions of ages, unfolding its means and powers of life, till, having passed through various brutish improvements, it reached the stage of existence which immediately preceded the human, providing for our inheritance—for the man the matured intelligence, for the woman the ripened graces, of the ape or the baboon. God help us! that many should have allowed themselves to accept such an origin, while a whole host of proofs assigns to us that of revelation, makes man the bonding link between unthinking matter and the breath of God, which made him sentient, reasoning, moral, and imperishable. Nay, which made him Godlike, and almost God." -- Round Table, p. 6, June 18, 1864.