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Updated: May 11, 2025

Peter had no connection with Rome, or that the doctrine of the Holy Trinity or of the Real Presence was foreign to primitive belief. An anticipation possesses them that the ultimate truths embodied in mesmerism will certainly solve all the Gospel miracles; or that to Niebuhrize the Gospels or the Fathers is a simple expedient for stultifying the whole Catholic system.

John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine: Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin