ABSTRACT
Count von Hoensbroech spoke for twenty minutes, but, without referring to the theory of evolution, he talked about the Russian censorship of books exercised by Jesuits, about the Roman Index of prohibited books, about the Syllabus, about Canon Law and about Vatican Council and from these sources he tried to prove a priori that Father Wasmann, being a Jesuit and good Catholic, could not be free scientist. According to this speaker, there, in fact, never existed among good Catholics 'an explorer in the domain of natural science. He seems unaware of the fact that the great Copernicus was a Catholic canon of Frauenburg. The unscientific character of von Hoensbroech's remarks on the Roman Index has already been pointed out in the Kolnische Volkszeitung, in an article signed 'Also a Representative of Science'. The sharpest condemnation of von Hoensbroech's behaviour at the evening discussion was pronounced by a Protestant critic, who does not personally accept even the theistic point of view.
