" "Oh, as for Celsus," interrupted I, "he is no oracle of mine; he is as fallible as the meanest of us; I often have occasion to bless myself for going contrary to his dogmas.

"The Sacred Canons agree that a Pope is liable to error and fallible in cases of special judgment.

Human judgments or reasonings are fallible on moral questions which have two sides; and reasonings from texts which present different meanings when studied by the lights of learning and science are still more liable to be untrustworthy.

But surely those whom passion or interest has already depraved, have some claim to compassion, from beings equally frail and fallible with themselves.