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weaker heads to the height of suggesting that the sup- 

 pression of the enquirer by the arm of the law would 

 be an act agreeable to God, and serviceable to man. 

 But this foolishness is more than neutralised by the 

 sympathy of the wise; and in England at least, so long 

 as the courtesy which befits an earnest theme is ad- 

 hered to, such sympathy is ever ready for an honest 

 man. None of us here need shrink from saying all that 

 he has a right to say. We ought, however, to remember 

 that it is not only a band of Jesuits, weaving their 

 schemes of intellectual slavery, under the innocent 

 guise ' of education/ that we are opposing. Our foes 

 are to some extent of our own household, including not 

 only the ignorant and the passionate, but a minority of 

 minds of high calibre and culture, lovers of freedom 

 moreover, who, though its objective hull be riddled by 

 logic, still find the ethic life of their religion unim- 

 paired. But while such considerations ought to influ- 

 ence the form of our argument, and prevent it from 

 ever slipping out of the region of courtesy into that of 

 scorn or abuse, its substance, I think, ought to be 

 maintained and presented in unmitigated strength. 



In the year 1855 the chair of philosophy in the 

 University of Munich happened to be filled by a Catho- 

 lic priest of great critical penetration, great learning, 

 and great courage, who had borne the brunt of battle 

 long before Dollinger. His Jesuit colleagues, he 

 knew, inculcated the belief that every human soul 

 is sent into the world from God by a separate and super- 

 natural act of creation. In a work entitled the ' Ori- 

 gin of the Human Soul,' Professor Frohschammer the 

 philosopher here alluded to, was hardy enough to ques- 

 tion this doctrine, and to affirm that man, body and 

 soul, comes from his parents, the act of creation being, 

 therefore, mediate and secondary only. The Jesuits 



