The language of this Liberal Catholic, brought up among German Protestants on the one hand and Swiss ones on the other, would sound altogether alien to the ears of the Cardinals, and would only deepen their painful impression of the evil influences of Protestant teaching upon the children of the Church. Enough occurred at the Council to show that, even among the bishops, there were one or two who would have dared to propose some of the points in Dr. Segesser's scheme, had the members of the Council been permitted to make proposals.
FOOTNOTES:
[213] Acta Sanctae Sedis, vol. v. p. 279.
[214] Ibid. p. 18.
[215] The popular explanation "hinge" is quite correct; the ancient hinge was a pivot inserted in a mortise, on which the door turned.
[216] Compare Quirinus, 86, and Tagebuch, 25.
[217] Stimmen, N.F., vi. p. 170.
[218] Id., p. 172.
[219] Sambin, p. 41.
[220] VII. ix. 6.