who can be called Port Royalists represent to us a struggle for a higher faith, a true moral standard; and that they were in no sense heretics. As has been rightly said, the Port Royalists protested against misunderstandings of their teaching, and never held the doctrine of so-called Jansenism, a doctrine which is as absurd as it is heretical. If Jesuits protest against interpretations of their teaching which seem to accuse them of something very like Pelagianism, certainly Port Royalists may protest against accusations of Calvinism.

Certainly the great book by Arnauld and Nicole on the Eucharist ought to have settled the Catholicity of Port Royal.

The words which Signor Forgazzaro puts into the mouth of his "Santo" express the principle for which Port Royal suffered. "Questo difetto di corraggio morale è una piaga della Chiesa. Piuttosto che mettersi in conflitto con i Superiori ci si mette in conflitto con Dio. E si crede di sfuggire a questo sostituendo alla propria coscienza dove Dio parla, la coscienza dei Superiori. . . . Non s'intende che il debito verso Dio e il debito verso i Superiori si possono compiere insieme non operando mai contre il Bene, non astenendosi mai da operare contro il Male, ma senza giudicare i Superiori, ma obbedendo loro con perfetta obbedienza în tutto che non è contro il Bene o a favore del Male, deponendo ai loro piedi la propria vita stessa, solo non la coscienza; la coscienza. Mai!"

Could anything better sum up what was meant by Port Royal resistance; everything could be yielded, but to refuse to listen to the final voice of Conscience, never!