The settlement of the question, however, on so illogical a basis as this was impossible, especially in view of the restless theological dogmatism of the pope and his inflexible determination to crush all dissidence of opinion.
It stimulated the morbid sensitiveness to doctrinal aberrations until the most trifling dissidence was capable of arousing insane fury, and of convulsing Europe from end to end.
The Church would permit no dissidence within its pale, and yet was singularly tolerant of these aberrations of the fashionable Humanism.
If the dissidence is found to predominate he abandons his theory and makes another statement and again sets out to determine the degree of conformity.
So much is said nowadays about the dissidence of the spiritual and intellectual worlds.
With those whose dissidence went beyond discipline to dogma, it took the shape of the fashionable philosophy of the period and became Naturalism or Philosophism, Deism or Atheism, as the case might be.
Huguenot dissidence and the discontent of many persons with the government gave the cardinal and the duke of Guise many troubled thoughts even after every external sign of disquiet had ceased.
Such was the impression which occurred to Marius again and again as he read, with a growing sense of some profound dissidence from his author.
And there was another point of dissidence between Aurelius and his reader.
But while the Divines were drawing up their platform of uniform belief and worship, dissidence was growing fast into a religious power.
But the religion most prevalent in our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
It was inevitable that such a religion should breed dissidence and such a priesthood provoke revolt.
The Church had not always been an organization which considered its highest duty to be the forcible suppression of dissidence at any cost.
Of course the decision went against them, and of course they were as little inclined as before to submit, but the colloquy has an interest as showing what progress at that period they had made in dissidence from Rome.
