4th Year Arts

If the Bull is implemented—as it must be—it can have three results, all equally to be deplored.

It could be followed in theory, but disregarded in practice. Then if members of the church criticised Communism, they would know what they were talking about, and be intellectually honest at the expense of their souls.

Or it could be fully implemented: the whole church could refuse to read anything contrary to its views, and thus oppose what they had not ever studied—the purest irrationality.

And the third? That there would be them who can and them who can't—an elite safe from conviction by argument who could be trusted to read without endangering themselves plus the mass, told what to believe on the authority of the few—not a pleasant state to contemplate.

I can't see how it can be squared with the university ideal of intellectual honesty.