The genius of Newman's idea is that Mary comes to
symbolise not only the faith of the unlearned, but of the Doctors of the Church also, who need «to investigate, and weigh, and define, as well as to profess the Gospel; to draw the line between truth and heresy; to anticipate or remedy the various aberrations of wrong reason; to combat pride and recklessness with one's own arms; and
thus to triumph over the sophist and the innovator.»