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.[1]
Dupanloup reached Rome. He found himself, preceded by a mass of hateful incriminations and ridiculous calumnies.[2] 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:—
"You see a Bishop who, during a life already long, has given manifest proofs of his devotion to the Church and to the Holy See; but who, because one day in a momentous question he has said what he believed to be the true interest of religion and of the Papacy, becomes suddenly the object of all the insults and indignities against which you protest: so far has passion prevailed where it ought not to exist. But what does it matter? There are in life hours marked out for grave and painful duties."[3]
