[sinkspur]

This was not the sentiment of earlier and healthier ages. The Last Judgment above the mediaeval door showed the lost and the saved as fairly equally divided.

Ah, yes. The Medieval age, with its belief in the burning of heretics, was a much healthier age!

[dighton]

... earlier and healthier ages.

That did smack the reader's face, as I suspect Evelyn Waugh intended.

[Concentrate]

Ah, yes. The Medieval age, with its belief in the burning of heretics, was a much healthier age!

I presume the "infallible" pope of that time was right behind the burning of heretics, too. Or is just this one infallable?