That abiding consciousness he never lost, and when his speculations went furthest they invariably stopped there.
Left with his father and one sister, the boy drank in the air of Dartmoor, and grew to love Devonshire with an unalterable affection.
He also continued his reading, and invaded theology.

Newton on the Prophecies remarked that "if the Pope was not Antichrist, he had bad luck to be so like him," and Renan had not yet explained that Antichrist was neither the Pope nor the French Revolution, but the Emperor Nero.

From Pearson on the Creed he learned the distinction between "believing" and "believing in." When we believe in a person, we trust him.

When we believe a thing, we are not sure of it.

This is one of the few theological distinctions which are also differences.