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Excerpt from Papers of a Pariah
A couple of days later he contracted a seri ous chill; and it was during visits that I paid to him for the remaining five days of his life on earth, that he spoke to me of a bundle of papers, and committed them to my disposal. It is from those papers that I have made the selection that form the following volume; these, with one exception, have already {appeared in the Month.' As regards their literary merits they must speak for themselves, but as regards their doctrinal position I must take leave to say a word or two.
They were written, it must be remembered, by one who was not only not a Catholic, but who did not at all continuously contemplate the becoming one. Their point of view, therefore and it is in this, I think, that their interest chie?y lies is of one who regards the Catho lic Church from without, not from within, though with a favourable eye. He was setting himself, though he did not fully realize it at first, to understand rather than to criticize, to hear what the Church had to say for herself through her external system, rather than to dis pute her right to speak at all. And it was, I suppose I may say, through his attitude of simplicity, that he merited, so far as one may merit, the grace of conversion.
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