⎪ ⎪ historically proved a mass ⎪ II. The _Major_ or ⎫ ⎪ of man-made accretions upon ⎪ Intellectual argument ⎪ which ⎪ an original basis morally ⎪ from History against ⎬ says that ⎨ true. ⎪ the Catholic claim to ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ Divine Authority. ⎭ ⎪ (b) (Sceptical or Pagan) ⎪ ⎪ The Catholic Church can be ⎪ ⎪ historically proved to be ⎪ ⎪ _wholly_ man-made in _all_ ⎩ ⎩ its structure. We begin by defining what we mean by the words “the Church,” or that body of pronouncement by the Church which we call “the Faith.” Manifestly, a corporate authority is not responsible for pronouncements on which it has allowed divergence: manifestly, again, such an authority is not responsible for pronouncements on which it has allowed change without protest. Manifestly, it is not responsible for pronouncements made not by itself through its admitted organs of universal affirmation, but by certain of its body acting as individuals or even as parts. I use the word “manifestly.” This may seem too strong a term in the ears of those who have heard precisely these false arguments repeated so often that the statement of their falsity sounds novel and strange. But if we examine the propositions closely, we shall see that this word “manifestly” exactly and inevitably applies in the three cases.