I have just finished his volume on Infallibility, which fills me with admiration of its easy movement, command of knowledge, singular faculty of disentanglement, and great skill and point in argument; though he does not quite make one love him.
Morley expresses admiration for a volume on infallibility, highlighting its intellectual qualities while noting a lack of personal affection for the author.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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