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A Leap in the Dark

CHAPTER II
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Of Mr.Justice Andrews he seems to have written that 'this Judge is a Unitarian,' and that it appears to the Bishop that 'the man who denies the divinity of our Lord is as incompetent to form clear, correct, and reliable conceptions of the feelings, the instincts, the opinions, and the religious convictions of an intensely Irish population as if they were inhabitants of another planet.' See _The Times_, April 3, 1893, p.

8, where a correspondent from Ireland purports to give the effect of a pamphlet by Dr.Nulty.The Bishop wrote, I suppose, with a view to Mr.Justice Andrews' opinions as to priestly influence at elections, but the Bishop's words suggest the inference that the government of a Catholic country ought to appoint Catholic Judges.

Why should we be surprised at this?
Religious toleration is not a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.
[60] See Home Rule Bill, 1893, clause 35, p.

214, _post_.
[61] 'I am not suggesting for a moment that we are going to set up in Ireland two independent and separate Executives.

I think the granting of Home Rule in any intelligible sense would be entirely incomplete if it were not supplemented by the granting of executive power, and in my judgment the Executive in Ireland is intended to be and must be dependent upon and responsible to the Irish Legislature in Irish affairs.


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