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The attention of Parliament was called to the book; the arguments were disputed by Edward Wells, John Edwards, and William Sommer; and Clarke was deprived of his offices. The charge of heterodoxy was certainly never proved against him; he did good service in trying to stem the flood of rationalism prevalent in his time, and his work was carried on by Bishop Butler.
Sterling did look hurt at such flippant heterodoxy, for a moment. The soul of his own creed, in those days, was far other than this indifference to Pot or Pan in such departments of inquiry. To me his sentiments for most part were lovable and admirable, though in the logical outcome there was everywhere room for opposition.
Grandfather looked at grandson quizzically, seeking the cause of such heterodoxy in a northern man. "Say, you ain't been falling in love?" he hazarded. "You you ain't going to bring one of them southern girls home?" "No!" said Tom laughing. "Well, I'm glad you ain't, for they're naturally light-minded. I remember 'em well." He wandered on with his questions and comments.
"Oh, both; must I? Well, then, I think him good as a man, but bad as a clergyman." "But I thought he worked so very hard as a clergyman?" "So he does. But if he works evil rather than good, you can't call him a good clergyman. Mind, you would have my opinion; and if I talk treason and heterodoxy and infidelity and papistry, you must only take it for what it's worth."
If a man's opinions are worth anything if he has fought his way to those opinions at the bayonet's point he will not be scared off from them by the whole bench of Bishops on the one side, or the College of Surgeons on the other. Not that I for one moment plead guilty to heterodoxy, either scientific or theological.
The son followed in his father's footsteps. He was a hard, austere, melancholy man, undemonstrative and reticent, shutting out all brightness from his own life, and clouding many an existence going on around him. I have always thought that his unwonted presence among us that day had a purpose, and that he had come to spy out some taint of heterodoxy in Lib's tales, to reprove and condemn.
Cardinal Bonpre gazed at him in astonishment. Vergniaud appeared to him in an entirely new light. But now the Abbe's frank admission of his own sins and failings seemed a proof of his inherent sincerity, and sincerity, whether found in orthodoxy or heterodoxy, always commanded the Cardinal's respect. "Are you speaking in parables or in grave earnest?" he asked.
During that unhappy agitation for the revision of our creed, I have heard him, touching the future state of unbaptised infants, utter sentiments of a heterodoxy that was positively effeminate in its sentimentality sentiments which I shall not pain you by repeating.
There is another tradition which imputes to the Duke's confessor an ecclesiastic who must have had a cleaner nose for heterodoxy than most of his fellows the original rejection of the dedication by the Duke, the alteration in its wording, and the subsequent neglect of the author.
His recovery from the physical blight of this captivity had been prompt; but there were those who sat under him who insisted that ever after he had been palpably less insistent upon the feature of divine retribution for what might be called the merely technical sins of heterodoxy.
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