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 been prevalent at different times 293 The Church theoretically is a living, growing, self-adapting organism 295 She is, in fact, the growing, moral sense of mankind organised and developed under a supernatural tutelage 295.