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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

John Henry Newman
Spring, Roots, Intellectual
Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.165, Aeterna Press
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.