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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 35: living by the church (search)
that the Roman Catholic Church, with all its merits, produced people less truth-telling than were elsewhere found; but was rather taken aback by the remark of a young Irish girl, one of two sisters whom I had seen go through college with the greatest credit and teach Greek to their priests afterwards. I had said something on the subject to her, she being a thoroughly candid and ingenuous soul. Do you really mean, she said, that you put a little less faith in people's word for their being Catholics? Yes, I said, I fear I do. It is very strange, she thoughtfully replied; that is just the way my sister and I feel about Protestants. It reminded me of De Goncourt's saying, After all, every political discussion comes back to this: I am better than you (Je suis meilleur que vous). It is much the same with the comparison of religions. For myself, I never should be led to become a Roman Catholic, as many are led, by the dignity and beauty of the ritual; because even that is tame and d