the  cause  of  Truth.  How  do  you  account  for  the
contradiction  between  the  infallible  utterances  of
earlier  and  later  Popes  ?  is  one  of  those  insidious
questions  which  contains  a  lie  impossible  to  refute
by  reason  of  its  dishonest  vagueness.  How  is  it
that  the  Church  is  always  in  the  wrong  in  her  con-
tests with  men  of  science?  How  is  it  that  she
suppresses  the  spirit  of  research  and  honest  inquiry  ?
Such  foolish  assumptions  of  what  is  false  as  true
are  of  every-day  occurrence;  in  fact  the  prejudice
existing  among  Protestants  is  in  great  measure  due
to  the  dark  hints  thrown  out  by  those  who  seek  to
discredit  Catholicity,  and  do  not  venture  to  do  so
by  open  statement.
Before  we  quit  the  subject  of  Fallacies,  we
must  remind  the  reader  that  it  is  impossible  to
draw  a  hard  and  fast  line  between  their  various
divisions.  Various  attempts  have  been  made  to
classify  them  in  modern  times.  We  have  preferred
to  follow  in  the  steps  of  Aristotle  and  St.  Thomas,
rather  than  to  adopt  the  improvements,  or  the
fancied  improvements,  that  have  been  introduced
with  liberal  hand  by  all  who  have  set  themselves
to  the  task  of  recasting  the  Logic  of  their  more
distinguished  predecessors.
CHAPTER  X.
ON    METHOD   AND   ITS   LAWS.
Importance  of  Method — Synthetic  and  Analytic  Methods — Method
of  various  Sciences — Laws  of  Method — Its  primary  axiom-
Certitude  of  various  Methods — St.  Thomas  on  Certitude —
Practical  Rules  of  Method — A  necessary  Caution — Importance
of  Distinctions — Method  and  the  end  to  be  attained  by  it.
