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CARDINAL BELLARMINE
[CHAP. VII.

of the sixteenth century—papal though indeed he was,—and the doctrine as it shaped itself in the Vatican Decrees. This inadequacy of its defenders, as judged by the standard of the nineteenth century decision, is a not unimportant feature in the doctrine's development.