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No man can intelligently become a Catholic without examining and deciding the historical question.

But back of this is the consideration that the truths the Church teaches are necessarily in harmony with my reason--nay, that they alone solve the problems of reason satisfactorily and answer fully to the wants of the heart.

To some minds the truths standing alone compel assent; that is to say, the truths standing alone, and considered in themselves, demand the submission of my reason.