Science is properly more scrupulous than
dogma.
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive." Alas!
Each race writes its line upon the book, as it passes; it erases the ancient Romanesque hieroglyphs on the frontispieces of cathedrals, and at the most one only sees
dogma cropping out here and there, beneath the new symbol which it has deposited.
I will simply call your attention to the fact that your modern systems of popular election, of two chambers, and of juries all had their origin in provincial and oecumenical councils, and in the episcopate and college of cardinals; but there is this difference,--the views of civilization held by our present-day philosophy seem to me to fade away before the sublime and divine conception of Catholic communion, the type of a universal social communion brought about by the word and the fact that are combined in religious
dogma. It would be very difficult for any modern political system, however perfect people may think it, to work once more such miracles as were wrought in those ages when the Church as the stay and support of the human intellect."
That there is much to be said for Nietzsche's hypothesis of the Eternal Recurrence of all things great and small, nobody who has read the literature on the subject will doubt for an instant; but it remains a very daring conjecture notwithstanding and even in its ultimate effect, as a
dogma, on the minds of men, I venture to doubt whether Nietzsche ever properly estimated its worth (see Note on Chapter LVII.).
Now, as always, Clare's father was sanguine as a child; and though the younger could not accept his parent's narrow
dogma he revered his practice, and recognized the hero under the pietist.
He has preached me as a
dogma; to-night he will announce me as a revelation.
As for the
dogma, she could not understand it and did not even try.
Poetry has been converted into
dogma; and it is not remarked that the Platonic ideas are to be found only in about a third of Plato's writings and are not confined to him.
Peter's to hear the publishing of the
dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
To the last Lavalle was a Catholic of the old school, accepting--he who had looked into the very heart of the lightnings--the
dogmas of papal infallibility, of absolution, of confession--of relics great and small.
She had a strange religion of transmigration of souls all her own, in which she had firm faith, troubling herself little about the
dogmas of the Church.
Though he had thrown on one side the Christian
dogmas it never occurred to him to criticise the Christian ethics; he accepted the Christian virtues, and indeed thought it fine to practise them for their own sake, without a thought of reward or punishment.