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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 believe the Bible for her sake, not her for the Bible's	305
And even though her dogmas may have existed in some form elsewhere, they become new revelations to us, by her supernatural selection of them	306
The Church is a living organism, for ever selecting and assimilating fresh nutriment	307
Even from amongst the wisdom of her bitterest enemies	309
All false revelations, in so far as they have professed to be infallible, are, from the Catholic standpoint, abortive Catholicisms	311
Catholicism has succeeded in the same attempt in which they have failed	313

CHAPTER XIII. BELIEF AND WILL.

The aim of this book	315
Has been to clear the great question as to man's nature, and the proper way of regarding him, from the confusion at present surrounding it	317

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