The Freedom of Science

The Freedom of Science is divided into sections, and its contents give the first as The Freedom of Science and its Philosophical Basis, the second as Freedom of Research and Faith, and the third as The Liberal Freedom of Research. The text says that to speak of a Catholic, Protestant, Liberal chemistry or mathematics has no sense at all, because these disciplines, like most other profane sciences, have no direct connection with Catholicism, Protestantism, or Liberalism. The text says that a decree of the Holy Office of July 3, 1907, the so-called Syllabus of Pius X., condemns a proposition.

The text says that the learned L. A. Muratori wrote a refutation of a heretic book. The text says that Saint Francis of Sales gives in his writings praise to God for having preserved him from losing his faith through the reading of heretical books. The text says that the ordinary and only safe way is to advance cautiously, by discoursive thinking, from cognition to cognition.