Their intellectual successors, being taught by them how to make use of science and reason, employed them against whatever beliefs remained.

Thus rational theology engendered natural philosophy.
That is why (if I may turn from the Penguins of former days to the Sovereign Pontiff, who, to-day governs the universal Church) we cannot admire too greatly the wisdom of Pope Pius X.in condemning the study of exegesis as contrary to revealed truth, fatal to sound theological doctrine, and deadly to the faith.

Those clerics who maintain the rights of science in opposition to him are pernicious doctors and pestilent teachers, and the faithful who approve of them are lacking in either mental or moral ballast.
At the end of the age of philosophers, the ancient kingdom of Penguinia was utterly destroyed, the king put to death, the privileges of the nobles abolished, and a Republic proclaimed in the midst of public misfortunes and while a terrible war was raging.

The assembly which then governed Penguinia ordered all the metal articles contained in the churches to be melted down.

The patriots even desecrated the tombs of the kings.