dull-droning

Updated: May 10, 2025

Very curious: to count up a few Popish chapels, listen to a few Protestant logic-choppings, to much dull-droning drowsy inanity that still calls itself Protestant, and say: See, Protestantism is dead; Popeism is more alive than it, will be alive after it! Drowsy inanities, not a few, that call themselves Protestant are dead; but Protestantism has not died yet, that I hear of!

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History