tinctly, "Dr. Newman, with a kind of
desperate audacity, _will_ dig forth such _scandals_ as _Notes_ of
the Catholic Church." This is what I get at his hands for my honesty.
Blot _twenty-nine_.

Again, he says, "[Dr. Newman uses] the blasphemy and profanity which
he confesses to be so common in Catholic countries, as an argument
_for_, and not _against_ the 'Catholic Faith.'"--p. 34. That is,
because I admit that profaneness exists in the Church, therefore I
consider it a token of the Church. Yes, certainly, just as our
national form of cursing is an evidence of the being of a God, and as
a gallows is the glorious sign of a civilised country,--but in no
other way. Blot _thirty_.

What is it that I really say? I say as follows: Protestants object
that the communion of Rome does not fulfil satisfactorily the
expectation which we may justly form concerning the true Church, as
it is delineated in the four notes, enumerated in the Creed; and
among others, _e.g._ in the note of sanctity; and they point, in
proof of what they assert, to the state of Catholic countries. Now,
in answer to this objection, it is plain what I might have done, if I
had not had a conscience. I might have denied the fact. I might have
said, for instance, that the middle ages were as virtuous, as they
were believing. I might have denied that there was any violence, any
superstition, any immorality, any blasphemy during them. And so as to
the state of countries which have long had the light of Catholic
truth, and have degenerated. I might have admitted nothing against
them, and explained away everything which plausibly told to their
disadvantage. I did nothing of the kind; and what effect has this had
upon this estimable critic? "Dr. Newman takes a seeming pleasure," he
says, "in detailing instances of dishonesty on the part of
Catholics."--p. 34. Blot _thirty-one_. Any one who knows me well,
would testify that my "seeming pleasure," as he calls it, at such
things, is just the impatient sensitiveness, which relieves itself by
means of a definite delineation of what is so hateful to it.

However, to pass on. All the miserable scandals of Catholic
countries, taken at the worst, are, as I view the matter, no argument
against the Church itself; and the reason which I give in the lecture
is, that, according to the proverb, Corruptio optimi est pessima. The
Jews could sin in a way no other contemporary race could sin, for
theirs was a sin against ligh