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eyea of doubting men as the only repre- 

 sentative of the unbroken Church. Every 



age since the Reformation has seen the 

 examples of conversion from Protestant 

 ranks. We have seen it in our own day, 

 in noble minds like Newman, seduced by 

 the dream of Catholicity, and dismayed by 

 the growth of religious freedom. It can 

 blind the scholar by its pretended historic 

 claims and dazzle the imaginative by the 

 charm of its ritual. There is a compact 

 strength in its organization which makes 

 it far more effective than our free Protes- 

 tantism. It has the drill of an ecclesiastical 

 army. It has the might of an unscrupulous 

 logic. ... It proclaims the infallibility 

 of one head ; it allows no freedom of 

 opinion; it utters its historic falsehoods 

 with the voice of the Ecumenical Council; 

 it knows no code of faith or morals save 

 implicit obedience. There is in all tins 

 a power which overawes the world. New- 

 man tells us in his Apologia, that, even in 

 Ins unenlightened, evangelical youth, he 

 fell into the habit, he knew not how, when 

 he went into the dark of making the sign 

 of the Cross. It was a pre-Roman instinct. 

 And his passage into the Roman commu- 



