...In his volume called Problems and Persons... [Wilfrid Ward] answers a
very fashionable fallacy in a very characteristic fashion. In reply to
an aggressive writer who urged that as science advances doctrine alters,
he points out that in actual history it is exactly the doctrine that
does not alter, and the science that does. When the progressive and
advanced person says that the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, let us
say, has been abandoned, it is truly answered that the only parts of it
that have really been abandoned are those which seemed at the time to be
progressive and advanced. The parts found most intangible and most
imperishable are really the parts that belong to revelation and
religious authority.
-"Wilfrid Ward"
The Dublin Review, Vol. CLIX, No. 314-315, July/October, 1916.
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