Conceptu, vol. iii., passim. that there is at least a prima facie case to send it for There is no need here to labour this point. A pre- trial. It would be comparatively easy to have filled B argumentation, and the fair-minded will at once see admit that it is a new necessary belief. is called " the earth before it was accursed," " in ception," and Passaglia, De Immaculate Deiparce Semper Virginia necessary again to point out that the Tridentine pro- 18 ROMAN CATHOLICISM arisen. They may not have known anything of the said of Original Sin does not apply to her. hint of it, for it expressly announces that what it has the faith of Catholics has developed. It is hardly suggest that when an article is announced explicitly in article of faith. All that I maintain here is that it is judiced mind will gain nothing from a more elaborate Council of Trent has (see p. 92) more than a strong this little book by tracing the development of any given is spoken of as being unstained by sin of any kind, 1 A comparison of the creeds (pp. 20-91) will show how 1 Ency. Brit, (eleventh edition), article on the " Immaculate Con- a creed it is therefore a new belief, while, of course, I terms. But in the first five centuries the Virgin Mary all things unstained," " super-innocent," &c., and the utterly stupid both psychologically and historically to