lose our temper as some of the skeptical critics seem to lose their temper, not to mention their wits. Their anticlericalism has become an atmosphere—an atmosphere of negation and hostility from which they cannot escape. Compared with that, it would be better to see the whole thing as something belonging to another continent, or to another planet. It would be more philosophical to stare indifferently at bonzes than to be perpetually and pointlessly grumbling at bishops. It would be better to walk past