Note 83 — Book the Second (continued 4)
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When it becomes a question of blaming a priest or a Pope, the principle of proportion demands that the lesser should bear. Two modern Roman Catholics have presumed with “unctuous rectitude” to scold the Holiness of the Pope as follows:
“From a Catholic point of view, it is impossible to blame Alexander too severely.”—(History of the Popes. Pastor + Antrobus. VI. 139.)
This inhuman pronouncement is saved by the “a.” Comment is needless: but there is another “Catholic point of view.”