THE Roman Catholic idea of the dangers of intellectual culture may be gathered from the following passage in the Dublin Review:— “We are far from meaning that ignorance is the Catholic youth’s best preservative against intellectual danger, but it is a very powerful one nevertheless, and those who deny this are but inventing a theory in the very teeth of manifest facts. A Catholic destitute of intellectual tastes whether in a higher or a lower rank, may probably enough, be tempted to idleness, frivolity, gambling, sensuality, but in none but the very rarest cases will he be tempted to that which (in the Catholic views) is an immeasurably greater calamity than any of these or all put together, viz., deliberate doubt on the truth of his religion. It is simply undeniable, we say, that the absence of higher education is a powerful preservative against apostasy, and those who watch over souls will reasonably refuse to bear a part in withdrawing that preservative.” We are free to say that we believe the more intellectual culture abounds among the laymen of the Romish Church, the more will they be likely to drop Rome’s superstitions. But there is nothing contrary to true culture or intelligence in the unadulterated gospel of Christ. Of course, the perverted gospel that Rome proclaims thrives most luxuriantly on the soil of ignorance. There is, undoubtedly, danger in educating human beings in the knowledge of the books, if the wisdom of the Book of books is withheld from them. A little human knowledge serves at times to make men self-satisfied, and in their pride of intellect they refuse to consider their need of the knowledge that alone insures life eternal. A man would surely need very little intelligence, however, to make him doubt the truth of a religion that would classify such doubt as “an immeasurably greater calamity” than idleness, frivolity, gambling, and sensuality “all put together.” God puts the sensual and the unbeliever in the same catalogue. They are alike hell-bound, the children of wrath, only to be saved by turning from their evil ways, and seeking pardon through Christ. The church of Rome has much to answer for in forcing such falsehoods as it does upon a people whom it purposely keeps in the darkness of ignorance.—New York Observer.