Newman, Pascal, Loisy and the Catholic Church (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Newman, Pascal, Loisy and the Catholic Church It is not a little surprising to those who are familiar with the political and religious controversies of some fifty years ago, to observe how seldom what used to be so peremptorily set forth as the right of private judgment is defended, or even mentioned. Indeed, whatever may be our own belief on the subject, this at least must be conceded: that, in some cases without a battle, though after a strenuous and feverish contest in others, the word and the thing have slowly but gradually been pushed out of almost every sphere of thought. Nay more: those entirely personal opinions, those private and particular judgments, - for which the "right" to hold them and insist on them used to be so loudly claimed, - have a tendency to vanish from public discussion, more or less rapidly, in proportion as the persons addressed are more or less educated, and a suspense of judgment which does not venture on an opinion never appears to cease, until it can pass into that scientific certitude which can no longer be counted as opinion at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.