Note 77 — Chapter V · EUROPE AND ASIA
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One may illustrate from Cardinal Newman himself: “What is intellect itself,” he asks, “but a fruit of the Fall, not found in paradise or in heaven, more than in little children, and at the utmost but tolerated by the Church, and only not incompatible with the regenerate mind?... Reason is God’s gift, and so are passions.... Eve was tempted to follow passion and reason, and she fell.” (Parochial and Plain Sermons, V, p. 112.)