"How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!"
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January 1, 1970

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Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book II, Chapter XII. (Referring to the controversies on transubstantiation—"Hoc est corpus meum").