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By John Henry Cardinal Newman John Henry Cardinal Newman begins the Essay with a deffinition of development, pointing out that the true problem is easy methods to distinguish true developments from corruptions and decays. He then goes on to sweeping consideration of the expansion and development of doctrine within the Catholic Church, from the time of the Apostles to Newman’s own era. He demonstrates that the elemental “rule” under which Christianity proceeded in the course of the centuries that all through all the lifetime of the Church this law of development has been in effect and safeguards the religion from any real corruption.