Note 27 — Chapter IV · Of the Relation of Tradition to Palætiology.

I may add that the most candid of the adherents of the Church of Rome condemn the assumption of authority in matters of science, made, in this one instance at least, by the ecclesiastical tribunals. The author of the Ages of Faith (book viii. p. 248), says, ‘A Congregation, it is to be lamented, declared the new system to be opposed to Scripture, and therefore heretical.’