"The delusion of invincibility can never grow up in the mind of anyone except one who has never met a strong antagonist."
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The Infallibility of the Church (London: John Murray, 1888; 4th ed. 1914), p. 111.
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George Salmon
(25 September 1819 – 22 January 1904) was an Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian. After working in algebraic geometry for two decades, Salmon devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.
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