Hilaire Belloc
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nine anti catholic history in so far as it is protestant was a provincial misunderstanding of the high culture and even the intellectual liberty of catholicism for example protestants execrated the jesuits for trying two hundred years ago to do in an orderly way what protestants problem novels and problem plays are now doing in an anarchical way to show some sympathy in hard cases
anti-catholic history in so far as it is atheist or agnostic has been a series of sweeping but very depressing scientific theories or generalizations each applied rigorously to everything and each abandoned abruptly in favor of the next for example among these were the commercial and utilitarian theories of bentham or of buckle
the theories that referred everything to race especially to the triumph of a teutonic race the economic theory of history of marx and other materialists there is probably another coming into fashion by this time eleven anti catholic history after bringing and dropping a thousand charges
after contradicting itself a thousand times on the subject of the catholic church has never yet guessed the simplest fact about the church that it stands for the whole truth against every kind of error for example the church is always treated as necessarily the ritualist or the ascetic party in any dispute though the church has condemned countless forms of ritual and excesses of asceticism
Anti-Catholic history is obscurantist.
It is afraid of the truth.
For example, we can easily verify this statement by challenging any of the newspapers to the free discussion of any of these theses.
Section 4 of Catholic and Anti-Catholic History by Various.
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Second Hand History by James J. Walsh
there is a prejudice against second-hand goods which the high cost of living has not lessened the bother is that they are never as dependable as we hoped they would be if people would only take that lesson to heart with regard to second-hand authorities and second-hand opinions as well as second-hand goods the acquisition of real knowledge would be a simpler matter talk about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing it is nothing in riskiness to thinking that you know things when you do not
american editors are particularly prone to be confident in their assertions of knowledge that is dubious at best but the flagrant example cocksureness with regard to things that are not so is mr arthur what a lot of second-hand authorities on all sorts of subjects he has read and what a lot of them have proved to be quite as undependable as second-hand things generally are
he is advertised as the highest paid editorial writer in the country he ought to be able to get hold of some new first-hand authors his editorials are a veritable joke book in their absolute assurance of expression just where the mysteries of things are the deepest
lord bryce's warning that in spite of all our advance in science the mists that hang round man's origin and man's destiny are just as deep as they ever were has no meaning apparently for mr brisbane he knows all about them
he is still in the silly seventies as they are well called that period a decade or so after the publication of darwin's book when a number of shallow scientists thought that evolution was just going to explain everything occasionally brisbane wanders into history when he does so he is the greatest displayer of second-hand opinions left among us at the present time that is of those who pretend to have any knowledge
history lies have proved such dangerous bombs to handle that most editors are somewhat careful in their historical authorities but apparently mr brisbane does not take it amiss that a historian is a little more than a generation behind the age
he has been accustomed to such hand-me-down opinions for so long that presumably he is not waked up yet to the fact that historical fashions have changed very much especially in the twentieth century he seems to have read some books about forty years ago
and in spite of his constant preachment with regard to the wonderful progress of mankind to have forgotten that history is very different now from what it used to be the cambridge modern history at the beginning of the present century suggested that great additions have of late been made to our knowledge of the past
the long conspiracy against the revelation of truth has gradually given way and competing historians all over the civilized world have been zealous to take advantage of the change the printing of archives has kept pace with the admission of inquirers
and the total mass of new matter which the last half century has accumulated amounts to many thousands of volumes in view of changes and of gains such as these it has become impossible for the historical writer of the present age to trust without reserve even to the most respected secondary authorities
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