Greek Garden
Pearce, Helen
June 26, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 215 the development of scientific anatomy sadly hampered by a papal bull which forbade the cutting up of human bodies. I told him quite frankly that I thought per-...
...Until within a few months of his death, Dr...
...He also published The Feast of Thaliarchus, a dramatic poem...
...Pallen, sent a letter of condolence to Mrs...
...Paris in rock With marble hair, The ageless fruit Embedded there...
...They were direct and forcible and set a good many people to thinking...
...Pallen's insistence on getting the orig- inal documents led me to present them in the volume, The Popes and Science, for what was true with regard to anatomy proved to be also true with regard to vari- ous papal documents which had been supposed to hamper other sciences, especially surgery, astronomy and chemistry...
...It also makes it clear why Presi- dent Hoover, though unacquainted with Dr...
...After nearly half a cen- tury of experiencing the blessedness of work and of life, Dr...
...I pray that such thoughts as these may help you bear your loss...
...Before he began his work on the Catholic Encyclo- pedia, and at intervals since, Dr...
...The cankered bud, The crying bees, But the white stone-- The trees, the trees...
...The book of his which attracted most attention was The Meaning of the Idylls of the King (19o4) which drew from Lord Tennyson himself a letter of praise and the declaration that Dr...
...reel Garden The splintered urn, The trees, the trees, The white stone And the violet leaves...
...He told his young wife when he married her that he was afraid she would have to have a rival in his affections in his devotion to the Catholic cause...
...Pallen had "seen further into the real meaning of the Idylls of the King than any of my commentators...
...I told him quite frankly that I thought per- haps some mediaeval Pope had issued such a document...
...Pallen published a series of books...
...He wrote brief volumes on The Philosophy of Literature (1897) and on Epochs of Literature (1898...
...It proved to be a decree of Pope Boniface VIII (13Ol) forbidding a practise that had crept in during the crusades--the dis- membering and boiling of the bodies of noblemen who had been killed, to ensure their preservation for burial in their own homes...
...I can forget The moth-like rose, The velvet fingers Where it grows...
...Pallen faced the future with a calm assurance of faith that made his passing only an incident in existence...
...So far from reseating it, she said that nothing would give her greater pleasure in life than to share his efforts or at least facilitate them in every way...
...His Dialogues of a Commuter, which appeared first serially and consisted of conversations with friends and acquaintances who took the train with him morning and evening and talked about religious subjects, attracted no little atten- tion...
...He published a collection of poems, The Death of Sir Launcelot and Other Poems (19o2) followed not long after by The New Rubaiyat, a study on life as the poet sees it...
...Pallen with his sincerest sympathy and the words, "I feel the public loss of the whole country in the death of one who gave so largely to the men and women of his time of the rich fruits of a sincere and high-minded search for the everlasting truth...
...HELEN PEARC...
...They were published in book form by Macmillan under the title of Man to Man (1927...
...For twenty years his life was given to that, and during the past five years it has been devoted in similar fashion to Universal Knowledge and the Catholic Dictionary...
...Diana in The chiseled wheat, A wounded woodcock At her feet...
...Before the middle of the fourteenth century Guy de Chauliac tells how his teacher, Bertruccio, made a series of dissections giving his students an excellent opportunity to know human anatomy...
...This work for truth and for the Church makes it easy to understand the cablegram from his Holiness Pope Pius XI condoling with the family for the loss of their husband and father...
...Pallen was ready to devote himself wholeheartedly to the Catholic Encyclopedia in order to supply infor- mation founded on original documents with regard to matters relating to the Catholic Church...
...In later years he wrote A Memorial of Andrew J. Shipman (1917...
...He insisted that we should see it...
...Pallen continued to occupy himself in one way or another with what had been the supreme object of his life, Catholic apologetics...
...Here was a successful marriage and a wedding of souls for a great purpose...
...No wonder that after a series of experiences like this, Dr...
...The beveled line Of column and wall, A purple lip At the fountain's bowl...
...As a matter of fact the history of dissec- tion can be traced from a few years after the issuance of the bull and came, in the next generation, to be a very common practice in Italy...
...The papal decree, De Sepulturis, forbade this practice as both abhorrent to human na- ture and likely to lead to the spread of disease...
...June 26, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 215 the development of scientific anatomy sadly hampered by a papal bull which forbade the cutting up of human bodies...
...In the midst of her family duties, she kept this promise completely and thus enabled her husband to accomplish all that he did...
...When mystery stories became rife, he wrote Ghost House (I928) a tale with rather more scien-tific connotation than most mystery stories...
...This is the document which supposedly prevented dissection...
Vol. 10 • June 1929 • No. 8
