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Excerpt from Correspondence on Infallability: Between a Father Jesuit
In a case of this kind, the abnormal development of such an idea will neither be arrested, nor reduced to its proper limits, unless it is allowed to develop to its full logical conclusion, and-unless this logical conclusion, thanks to the exclusive application in question, is shown to be an absurdity. Now this is just what has taken place with regard to the conception of authority in Roman Catholicism. The idea itself cor responds to a need of our religious consciousness, it has therefore a raison d'etre. But since the great, schism of the ninth century, the West, forgetting the legitimacy and necessity of the correlate conception of religious liberty, has applied itself exclusively to the development of the principle of authority, which has arrived at a form answering to its illegitimate develop ment in the Papacy.
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