Or even if it is the nearest to the truth, you are under obligations to join it.

How any one can believe in either one of those propositions, as 0.

A.B.does, without becoming a Catholic in fact, I cannot conceive.

This special pleading of exceptions, the necessity of the case, and improbable suppositions, springs more, I think, from the position of the individual than from the importance or truth of the arguments made use of.

Therefore I think he will give up in time the ground upon which he now supports his course--not the object but his position.