To whom, then, do you appeal?
To the King ?--Parliament ?--the Court of Arches, or any other Court?
Not a bit of it.

Well, let's try again.

Is it to the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Or to your own Diocesan ?" "I should appeal to the sanction of the Church Catholic as given in her ancient Councils." "And again--as nowadays interpreted by whom?
Let us pass a hundred possible points on which no Council bothered its head, and on which consequently it has left no decision.

Who's the man, anywhere, to take you by the scruff of the neck and chastise you for an error ?" "Within the limits of conscience I should, of course, bow to my Diocesan." "Elastic limits, Mr.Colt! and, substituting Brother Warboise's conscience for yours, precisely the limits within which Brother Warboise bows to you! Anarchy will obey anything 'within the limits of conscience'-- that's precisely what anarchy means; and even so and to that extent will you obey Bishop or Archbishop.

In your heart you deny their authority; in speech, in practice, you never lose an occasion of flouting them and showing them up for fools.