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⁹ Ibid., p. 303.

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¹³ Grammar of Assent, p. 376.

¹⁴ Bouyer, , Newman: A Spiritual Biography (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011)Google Scholar. First published in Paris in 1952.

¹⁵ See The Invisible Father, all of part one.

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¹⁷ Ibid., pp. 129-30.

¹⁸ Ibid., pp. 130-1.

¹⁹ Ibid., p. 131.

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