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Postscript on Catholic Unity. 191
rudiments of our own religion liave others been
able to put forward without manifest absurdity
one aspect of Christian doctrine as the new
truth destined to supersede Christianity in the
regeneration of mankind. But for the selfisho
ness and disunion of Christians, Comtists could
never have mistaken that fundamental pos
tulate of all Christian teaching thev are dimly
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feeling o after for the substitute or rival of
Christianity. The noble maxim of the old
Roman Niliil kumani a me alieniim puto was
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but the anticipation,
the modern solidarity of
is but the shadow of that universal
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peoples
brotherhood proclaimed by CHKIST, and first
realised in His infant Church.
There are some, however, who profess a desire
for restored unity among Christians but repudiate
as alike chi
the idea of a corporate reunion
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merical and false, opposed to the first principles
of Catholicism, and only conceivable through
" an astounding and most unprecedented mira
cle." Thev have even had the hardihood to
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that Cardinal Wiseman s famous Letter
deny
sanctions the
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theological error
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of
corporate re
union or points to anything but the most
absolutely unreserved submission of individuals.
His urgency in
insisting (as I have shown
elsewhere) on the duty of mutual explanations
would alone disprove this assertion ; explanations
can neither be offered nor accepted in a case of