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speculative beliefs are changing sides without the 

 knowledge of the disputants ; and he who thinks 

 himself a defender of the faith may have joined the 

 revolt. But if we no longer carry the colours of 

 the troops of the past we shall collect our lessons 

 from its strategies ; and for one of these lessons a 

 prelate of the King will give thanks with me, 

 that his supremacy has palsied the arm of the 

 inquisitor to strengthen that of the apostle. 



An unsystematic reader of a subject finds 

 it out of his power to make due acknowledgment 

 of the help and advantage derived from expert 

 authors. Much of the matter had seeded itself 

 insensibly in his brain in the course of general 

 reading and conversation ; much of it again had 

 been obtained more carefully from sources now 

 forgotten. To the following authors I know I 

 am profoundly indebted, as I am to many others 

 to whose names and works I can now give no 

 reference : 



Haurdau, La Philosophie Scolastique, Ed. 1872 ; 

 Jowett, Dialogues of Plato (vol. in. p. 523); Jourdain 

 (Amable), Recherches critiques, Paris 1848 ; Jourdain 



