Vulgar words in Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold (Page 1)
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The mental habit of him who imagines that Balaam's ass spoke, in no respect differs from the mental habit of him who imagines that a Madonna of wood or stone winked; and the one, who says that God's Church makes him believe what he believes, and the other, who says that God's Word makes him believe what he believes, are for the philosopher perfectly alike in not really and truly knowing, when they say _God's Church_ and _God's Word_, what it is they say, or whereof they affirm.