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licism means a very definite mentality and tempera- i See pp. 27, 29, 74. 14 THE EXPANSION OF CREEDS 15 mentality, a very definite outlook x on all that man knows of God and man's relations to him. But I do not mean more when I have repeated the whole Creed of Pius IV., than when I have sincerely said, " I be- lieve whatsoever the Catholic Church teaches." I have merely defined my faith more explicitly. This tendency to make the creeds more explicit is a necessary condition of religious life and growth, and stated in this way, it is at once clear how inaccurate it is to look upon a truth which is now explicitly announced in the creed as something new. Clearly it is new in a way. Thousands of Catholics may have died, for instance, who, before 1870, would not have believed in Papal Infallibility. But this would not prove that the dogma of Papal Infallibility is wrong, or new ; or that to-day it is not of faith, any more than similar con- clusions would be just in the case of the words in the Nicene Creed " And the Son," announcing the Pro- cession of the Holy Ghost from the Son of God. The words are generally held to have been inserted in the Nicene Creed in the sixth century. It is therefore reasonable to suppose that many thousands of Chris- tians in the early Church must have died without be-