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 186 were with magnificent Utopias on liberty, will not credit him with uncatholic extremes. He rendered to the Church most signal services. If he was sometimes deceived, this was due, not to want of intelligence, but of theological learning. When the alternative lay between liberty and religion, he did not hesitate. "I love liberty more than all the world," he said, "and religion more than liberty." When asked what he would do if Infallibility were defined, he answered without hesitation, "I should submit." "But how would you reconcile your ideas with such a definition?" "I should impose silence on my reasonings. If my difficulties remained, assuredly the good God does not order me to understand, but simply to submit, as I do to other dogmas." Such was an Italian estimate.

Dupanloup reached Rome. He found himself, preceded by a mass of hateful incriminations and ridiculous calumnies. He was said in English Roman papers to be in league with Napoleon against the Holy See.

Dupanloup's generous nature was profoundly wounded. To the clergy of the diocese who expressed their loyal sympathy with him, he replied:—