Hilaire Belloc 
Europe and the Faith (Serapis Classics) 

I say the Catholic ’conscience’ of history–I say ’conscience’–that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower–I do not say ’The Catholic Aspect of History.’ This talk of ’aspects’ is modern and therefore part of a decline: it is false, and therefore ephemeral: I will not stoop to it.