They have never suffered it to stop.

They have often carried on its movement, when other moving powers failed, by the momentum stored in their vast body.

Sometimes, too, they have kept it back by their vis inertia, when its wheels were like to grind the bones of some old canonized error into fertilizers for the soil that yields the bread of life.

But the mainspring of the world's onward religious movement is not in them, nor in any one body of men, let me tell you.

It is the people that makes the clergy, and not the clergy that makes the people.