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Even if what one defends be true, an attitude of defence, a tinual apology, whatever the cause, makes the mind barren because it kills intellectual innoce; that delight in what is unforeseen, and in the mere spectacle of the world, the mere drifting hither and thither that must e before all true thought aion.

A zealous Irishman, especially if he lives much out of Ireland, spends his time in a never?ending argument about Oliver well, the Dahe penal laws, the rebellion of 1798, the famihe Irish peasant, and ends by substituting a traditional casuistry for a try; and if he be a Catholic, yet another casuistry that has professors, sasters, letter?writing priests, and the authors of manuals to make the meshes fine, es between him and English literature, substituting arguments aations for the excitement at the first reading of the great poets which should be a sort of violent imaginative puberty. His hesitations and arguments may have been right, the Catholic……(内容加载失败!)

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