Thus  reprobated,  forbidden,  and  condemned  is  the  proposition

(No.  3  of  the  Syllabus)  :  "  Human  reason  is  the  only  arbi-

.irator  concerning  what  is  true  and  false,  good  or  bad  ;  it  is  even

dtself  law,  and  is,  with  its  natural  powers,  adequate  to  care  for

;the  benefit  of  men  and  peoples."

Reprobated,  forbidden,  and  condemned  is  the  proposition  (No.
'7  of  the  Syllabus) :  "  The  prophecies  and  miracles  reported  and
rielated  in  the  Holy  Scriptures  are  inventions  of  the  poet,  and
rthe  mysteries  of  Christian  belief  are  merely  the  result  of  philo-
sophical investigations,  and  in  the  books  of  the  two  Testaments
are  contained  mythical  inventions,  and  Jesus  Christ  Himself  is  a
mythical  fiction."

Reprobated,  forbidden,  and  condemned  is  the  proposition  (No.
.11  of  the  Syllabus) :  "  The  Church  must  not  only  not  proceed
inimically  against  philosophy,,  but  she  must  also  tolerate  the
errors  of  the  same  and  leave  it  even  to  itself  to  correct
them.''

Reprobated,  forbidden,  and  condemned  is  the  proposition  No.
15  of  the  Syllabus) :  "  Every  man,  guidedby  the  light  of  reason,
Js  free  to  adopt  and  to  recognise  whatever  religion  he  considers
to  be  the  true  one."

Reprobated,  forbidden,  and  condemned  is  the  proposition  (No.
16  of  the  Syllabus) :  "  By  the  exercise  of  any  religion  whatsoever
!inen  may  find  the  way  to  eternal  salvation  and  attain  eternal
(happiness."


738  HIBTOBY   OF   THE    JESUITS.
Keprobated,  forbidden,  and  condemned  is  the  proposition  (Noi
18  of  the  Syllabus) :  "  Protestantism  is  nothing  more  than
another  form  of  the  same  true  Christian  religion,  and  one  may-
be in  it  as  acceptable  to  God  as  in  the  Catholic  Church."

Eeprobated,  forbidden,  and  condemned  is  the  proposition  (No.
