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Henry Edward Manning, né le 15 juillet 1808 à Totteridge et mort le 14 janvier 1892 à Londres, est un ecclésiastique anglican qui, devenu catholique en 1851, fut archevêque catholique de Westminster, En 1875 il fut créé cardinal. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. juillet 1808 – 14. janvier 1892
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Henry Edward Manning: Citations en anglais

“God knows that I would rather stand in the lowest place within the Truth, than in the highest without it. Nay, outside the Truth the higher the worse. It is only so much more opposition to Truth, so much more propagation of falsehood.”

Letter to Robert Wilberforce (Rome, 15 February 1848); in Edmund Sheridan Purcell, Life of Cardinal Manning, Vol. I (London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), p. 513.

“All human conflict is ultimately theological.”

In conversation with Hilaire Belloc (around 1890). Reported in Hilaire Belloc, The Cruise of the "Nona" (1925). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958, p. 48.
What Manning meant, Belloc explains, is "that all wars and revolutions, and all decisive struggles between parties of men arise from a difference in moral and transcendental doctrine" (p. 48), since no man, "arguing for what should be among men, but took for granted as he argued that the doctrine he consciously or unconsciously accepted was or should be a similar foundation for all mankind. Hence battle." (p. 49)

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