Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... VATICANISM I. Introduction. The number and quality of the antagonists who have been drawn into the field on the occasion offered by my tract on the Vatican Decrees,1 and the interest in the subject which has been manifested by the public of England and of many other countries, appear to show that it was not inopportune. The only special claim to attention with which I could invest it was this, that for thirty years I had striven hard, together with others, to secure a full measure of civil justice for my Eoman Catholic fellow-countrymen, and that I still retained the convictions by which these efforts had been prompted. Knowing well the general indisposition of the English mind, amid the pressing demands of our crowded daily life, to touch any subject comparatively abstract and remote, I was not surprised when many journals of great influence, reflecting this indisposition, condemned the publication of the Tract, and inspired Roman authorities among us with the vain conception that the discussion was not practical or significant.2 In Rome itself, a different view was taken; and the veiled prophets behind the throne, by whom the Latin Church is governed, brought about its condemnation as blasphemous, without perusal, from the lips of the Holy Father.3 The object, probably, was at once to prevent or 1 Appendix A. a For example: 'The various organs of the press, with the shrewd political sense for which they are conspicuous, without any possible collusion, extinguished its political import in a single morning.'--Bishop VaugkarCs Pastoral Letter, p. 5. 3 The declaration of non avenu, which, after a brief interval, followed the announcement of the condemnation, appeared upon some subsequent discussion to be negatived by the evineutralize...
