"[the Catholic scholar] must meet his adversaries on grounds which they understand and acknowledge...[he must discuss] each topic on its intrinsic merits -- answering the critic by a severer criticism, the metaphysician by closer reasoning, the historian by deeper learning, the politician by sounder politics and indifference itself by a purer impartiality. In all these subjects...[he] discovers a point pre-eminently Catholic, but also pre-eminently intellectual and true."
-lord Acton, the Munich School of Catholicism.
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