Is Life Worth Living? by William Hurrell Mallock
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1st. The partial success of her revelation; and her supposed
condemnation of the virtues of unbelievers. But her partial success is simply the old mystery of evil 282 And through her infinite charity, she does nothing to increase that difficulty 283 The value of orthodoxy is analogous to the value of true physical science 285 All should try to learn the truth who can; but we do not condemn others who cannot 286 Even amongst Catholics generally no recondite theological knowledge is required 287 The facts of the Catholic _religion_ are simple. Theology is the complex scientific explanation of them 288 Catholicism is misunderstood because the outside world confuses with its religion--1st. The complex explanations of it 289 2nd. Matters of discipline, and practical rules 290 3rd. The pious opinions, or the scientific errors of private persons, or particular epochs 291 None of which really are any integral part of the Church 293 Neither are the peculiar exaggerations of moral feeling that have |
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