THE 'DAILY TIMES' AND GALILEO.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 60, 3 May 1873, Page 8

THE 'DAILY TIMES' AND GALILEO.

Thb ' Daily Times ' is sometimes unfortunate in its similitudes. For example, in its ifcsue of the 18th ult., the following words are to be found in a very prominent position, viz. : — " Never, perhaps, was any bill brought before the House about which more egregious nonsense was talked than this. Those who, like the Pope that condemned Galileo, found their opposition upon what they think the Bible has said, will do well to imitate his conduct further, and to recall their ignorant assertions, upon mature reflection." This is very off-hand sort of writing, and the writer, no doubt, considers himself a vary superior person, and able to afford to look down upon mere matter of fact and unimaginative people. But, unfortunately for him, matter of fact people naturally ask who is the Pope who condemned Galileo, and, on mature reflection, recalled the condemnati' aa. This is a very new view, quite worthy of our modern philosophers. But, perhaps, the writer means that one Pope condemned Galileo, and another recalled tho condemnation. History, however, nowhere says this. This writer should try and acquire accurate information, that he may be enabled to write accurately and like a scholar.