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283 The value of orthodoxy is analogous to the value of true physical science 285 All should try to learn the truth who can; but we do not condemn others who cannot 286 Even amongst Catholics generally no recondite theological knowledge is required 287 The facts of the Catholic _religion_ are simple. Theology is the complex scientific explanation of them 288 Catholicism is misunderstood because the outside world confuses with its religion--1st. The complex explanations of it 289 2nd. Matters of discipline, and practical rules 290 3rd. The pious opinions, or the scientific errors of private persons, or particular epochs 291 None of which really are any integral part of the Church 293 Neither are the peculiar exaggerations of moral feeling that have been prevalent at different times 293 The Church theoretically is a living, growing, self-adapting organism 295 She is, in fact, the growing, moral sense of mankind organised and developed under a supernatural tutelage 295 CHAPTER XII. UNIVERSAL HISTORY AND THE CLAIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. We must now consider the Church in relation to history and external historical criticism 297 1st. The history of Christianity; 2nd. The history of other religions 298 Criticism has robbed the Bible of nearly all the supposed internal evidences of its supernatural character 298 It has traced the chief Christian dogmas to non-Christian sources 300 It has shown that the histories of other religions are strangely analogous to the history of Christianity 300 And to Protestantism these discoveries are fatal 302 But they are not fatal to Catholicism, whose attitude to history is made utterly different by the doctrine of the perpetual infallibility of the Church 305 The Catholic Church teaches us to b
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