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1. Thus Newman, in Rome in 1846, was assured that Aristotle was out of favour and so was Thomas Aquinas. When Newman asked his interlocutor what philosophy they did adopt, ‘He said none. “Odds and ends – whatever seems to them best… Facts are the great thing, and nothing else. ”’ See Marvin R. O‘Connell, Crilics on Trial: An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C.,1914, pp. 27 – 8. See the same author’s The Oxford Conspirators, Macmillan, New York 1969.