I am aware that I distinguish in the mass, and that both sides would be found more or less influenced by the same difficulties--but _more_ and _less_, and therefore thus classified by the driving predominance.

Those of the one party, then, finding no proof to be had but that in testimony, and anxious to have all they can--delighting too in a certain holy wilfulness of intellectual self-immolation, accept the testimony in the mass, and become Roman Catholics.

Nor is it difficult to see how they then find rest.

It is not the dogma, but the contact with Christ the truth, with Christ the man, which the dogma, in pacifying the troubles of the intellect--if only by a soporific, has aided them in reaching, that gives them peace: it is the truth itself that makes them free.
The worshippers of science will themselves allow, that when they cannot gain observations enough to satisfy them upon any point in which a law of nature is involved, they must, if possible, institute experiments.

I say therefore to those whose observation has not satisfied them concerning the phenomenon Christianity,--"Where is your experiment?
Why do you not thus try the utterance claiming to be the law of life?
Call it a hypothesis, and experiment upon it.