“For a pagan Platonist its particularity seemed scandalously incompatible with divine immutability and with a universal operation of providence in the cosmos as a whole.”
“So, after the first burst of virtuous indignation is expended, we would humbly inquire if the denounced work of the Lady-in-waiting is one iota more scandalous, and slanderous, false, malicious, and satirical than the letters lately published by her great-grandson?”