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Orthodoxy

CHAPTER VIII
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We concluded the last chapter with the discovery of one of them.

The very doctrine which is called the most old-fashioned was found to be the only safeguard of the new democracies of the earth.

The doctrine seemingly most unpopular was found to be the only strength of the people.

In short, we found that the only logical negation of oligarchy was in the affirmation of original sin.

So it is, I maintain, in all the other cases.
I take the most obvious instance first, the case of miracles.


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