In this examination of Mr. Belloc’s opening and more fundamental attacks upon the _Outline of History_ I have shown sufficiently that Mr. Belloc is incapable of evidence or discussion, that he imagines his authorities, that he is careless and ignorant as to his facts and slovenly and tricky in his logic. I have dealt kindly but adequately with his atrocious bad manners and his insolence and impudence. I do not think it is worth while to go on through the second half of his outpourings with any particularity. It is exactly the same kind of thing, but upon more familiar ground and less fundamental issues. Mr. Belloc quibbles. He falsifies. For example, he imagines traditions to reinforce the Gospel account of Christ’s teaching and to show that the founder of Christianity was aware of his godhead and taught the doctrine of the Trinity; he declares--just out of his head--that I do not know it was the bull and not Mithra who was sacrificed in the system of Mithraism, though I state that quite plainly in a passage he has ventured to ignore. And so on. The wonderful methods of the Palæolithic bow story repeat themselves with variations, time after time. Why should I trouble to repeat the exposure in every case? I have done enough to demonstrate the quality of this effort to bluff and bawl away accepted knowledge and manifest fact, and that is all that I set out to do. And this apparently is the present state of Catholic teaching. This stuff I have examined is the current utterance of organised Christianity, so far as there is any utterance, upon the doctrines of the Creation and the Fall--doctrines upon which rest the whole scheme of Christian salvation and the entire fabric of a Christian’s faith. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Several apparent misspellings may be intentional, and have not been changed. Page 69: “Mr. Belloc will get if he says” probably is missing an “it” after “get”. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. Page 95: Part of the last paragraph was misprinted. Transcriber has attempted to correct that error. The original text was: And this apparently is the present state of Catholic teaching. This stuff I have examined is ance of organised Christianity, so far as there is representative stuff. This is the current utter- ance of organised Christianity, so far as there is any utterance, upon the doctrines of the Creation and the Fall--doctrines upon which rest the whole scheme of Christian salvation and the entire fabric of a Christian’s faith.