too-gifted

Updated: May 28, 2025

"This will make ostracism parallel to the Reformation or the Revolution," said Sheffield; "there is a battle of influence against influence, and one gets rid of the other; law or constitution does not come into question, but the will of the people or of the court ejects, whether the too-gifted individual, or the monarch, or the religion.

John Henry Newman - Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert