Harmony Between Science and Revelation

This work is presented as a conversation between several people. We will in a few words introduce the persons who are to take part in the dialogue. The first is B. Armstrong. He is an old doctor of medicine, retired from the practice of his profession, in which he stands very high. A convert to the Catholic Church since his early manhood, loves her with the ardent zeal of a convert, but much more with the firm and settled conviction of one who has studied her doctrines long and profoundly, and has compared them with the results of modern science, in which he is a very great adept. The next in rank is George N., young physician himself and son of one of the most intimale friends of the old doctor. He is a frequent visitor at the latter's home, drawn there not only by the evident advantages and improvement he derives from the doctor's conversation, but also by the attractions of the third personage of our dialogue, Aefle M. She is a niece and a ward of the doctor-the very apple of his eye. She is well educated, of a serious turn of mind, which does not interfere with the liveliness and cheerfulness of her disposition. The three personages are sitting cosily around the table after tea. This work considers the case for and against evolution and the matter of the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.