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then prevalent was far more really the faith
we are trying to restore than its later innovac
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tions.
There is no doubt, on the other hand, that
modern Romanism has proved itself as in
capable of dealing with the developed human
intellect as it has shown its power of dealing
with the affections and senses. Established, or
not established, whether against or in favour of
their worldly interests, it enlists the sympathies
of the unprejudiced poor., and the feminine
mind in general, because neither of these are
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influenced through their understandings, but
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through the affections and imagination. But
with reasoning beings it has not known how to
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deal, and the training given to its priests has
not enabled them to demonstrate that the
Catholic Faith is the only one that will satisfy
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the reason. Intellectual men have faith and
affections as well as women, but they
are ac
customed to test every impulse by their reason,
and if not satisfied to go no further. Rome
has hoped to check the enquiry it could not on
modern principles answer, by treating enquiry
xis a sin, and all but placing Faith in opposition
to Reason. It has encouraged the people in
what Dr. Newman calls
"
puerile absurdities,"
forgetting that whatever may be *> the feelings O
excited by a doll dressed up in tinsel and crinoline
among the vulgar, it can occasion nothing but