'The Church Accredits Itself' was the title of one of the most powerful articles Dr.Brownson ever wrote for this magazine.
"Both the historical and the philosophical processes are necessary, but each is more so to one class of minds than to another.

To the philosophical mind, once scepticism is gone and life is real, the supreme fact of life is the need of more truth than unaided reason can know.

The more this need is felt, and the more clearly the deficiencies of natural reason are known, the better capable one is to appreciate the truths of revelation which can alone supply these deficiencies.

In such a state of mind you are in a condition to establish revealed truth in a certain sense _a priori,_ and the method _a posteriori_ is then outranked.

The philosopher outranks the historian.