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It is a relief to turn from the vanity and peevishness of Mr. Gomme to two more serious antagonists. Mr. Belloc is something of a special pleader, and both he and Dr. Downey forgo few controversial advantages. Dr. Downey is not ashamed to write of my "showman's gestures" and so forth, but they both have minds and tempers that are disciplined; they are intelligently interested in _The Outline of History_ as a whole; a passionate objection to my existence does not appear among their motives. They realise I have a definite standpoint and they state an understandable difference.
Mr. Belloc's criticisms appeared in the _Dublin Review_ and the _London Mercury_, and I do not think he has reprinted them. We had a brief but animated dispute in the _London Mercury_ and the Catholic _Tablet_ arising out of his comments, and I will not renew the particular issues then discussed, except in so far as they arise again out of Dr. Downey's pamphlet. I will direct myself rather to Dr. Downey than to Mr. Belloc.