...Catholic writers. If I shall succeed in this, I shall be content, without attempting to defend it. Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they bo brought to a plain issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them...

...have said before now, " Half the controversies in the world, could they be brought to a plain issue, would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive .... that in substance .... their difference was of first principles. . . . When men understand what...

...later under the head of justification). " Half the controversies in the world," said Cardinal Newman, " are verbal ones, and, could they be brought to a plain...that their difference was one of first principles. . . . When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either...

...understood." Or, as Cardinal Newman puts it, in a pregnant passage of one of his Oxford University Sermons : ' Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones,...issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination. We need not dispute, we need not prove — we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do...

..."Half the controversies of the world are verbal ones," said Cardinal Newman ; " and, if they could be brought to a plain issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination." But to bring them to a plain issue, — that is the difficult thing ; and why it is so is the great...

..."Half the controversies of the world are verbal ones," said Cardinal Newman ; " and, if they could be brought to a plain issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination." But to bring them to a plain issue,— that is the difficult thing; and why it is so is the great moral...

...is powerfully observed by Cardinal Newman, in one of his 'Sermons before the University of Oxford:' 'Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones,...brought to a plain issue, they would be brought to a speedy termination. . . . We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events,...

...from Newman might serve as a motto for any society which seeks to pynthetise by aid of discussion : " Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones,...that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove; we need but to define. When men understand what each other...

...versd. ' Half the controversies in the world,' says Cardinal Newman in one of his Oxford sermons, ' are verbal ones, and could they be brought to a plain...that their difference was one of first principles. . . . We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but to define. At all events let us, if we can,...

...stating the issue and working out a reductio ab absurdum of the opposing view. Cardinal Newman has said: " Half the controversies in the world are verbal...issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination. . . . When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either...