So, when we argue with opponents we undertake to give them as good as or better than they can give, but we stake our cause on the something that is more.

On this ground I argue not in general on the right of war, but in particular on the right of revolt; not how it may touch other people elsewhere ignoring how it touches us here in Ireland.

A large treatise could be written on the general question, but to avoid seeming academic I will confine myself as far as possible to the side that is our concern.

For obvious reasons I propose to speak as to how it affects Catholics, and let them and others know what some Catholic writers of authority have said on the matter.

One thing has to be carefully made clear.