The Dublin Review, Vol. 24
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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 24: January April As they say there are people in the south of France who are ready to deny that the Prussian hordes ever really swept away the frontiers of Alsace and Lorraine, and marched triumphant through the Barriere de l´Etoile, turning its sculptured victories into bitter derision, and the Elysian fields into a national purgatory, so many of us must have felt that the events of the last four years were needed to convince us with intimate sense that the Church and the world are hic et nunc internecine foes, and that we must in our place and measure take our side and abide by it. Yet, as in the former instance so in the latter also, the battle was always waged, and the combatants, if not engaged hand to hand, yet arrayed in opposite ranks, and variously conscious of the presence of the enemy. It may be, perhaps, interesting if in the following remarks we endeavour not so much to contribute anything to a knowledge of the facts of the struggle now engaged between the Prussian Imperial Chancellor´s government and the Church, as to indicate some of its antecedents, and trace them to their present issue, and thus show that the unexpectedness to us of Prince Bismark´s attack is not so much an objective phenomenon as a revelation of our own personal ignorance of what has been kept from our knowledge, less by the guile of conspirators in high places than by our own incuria. Not wishing to repudiate the truth conveyed in the homely maxim of "minding your own business," one yet cannot but regret that we too often practically apply it in a wrong direction, when we allow the events which affect the Church at large to pass unnoticed, because they do not immediately touch our small share in the inheritance of God and of His kingdom. We are not alarmists, nor would we hold up the fear of what may one day happen to us as a motive for more active sympathy with other parts of the great body to which we belong, but still it is lawful to say "tua res agitur dum proximus ardet, Ucalegon," and to fall back on the less good motive where superior ones seem to have no effect. It is from this point of view, of the real solidarity, as they say, of all Catholic interests, that the late visit of two English noblewomen, not less distinguished for their manifold virtues and talents and their devotion to the cause of God, than for their high rank and social position, to their sisters the noble ladies of Catholic Westphalia at Münster, is so admirable. Not deterred by the inclemency of the season, or the still more sensible frigidity of the world´s comments, they went to Prussia to present to those ladies, who had had the courage to visit and condole with their Bishop under the pains and penalties of Prince Bismark´s new Church Laws, an address from the Catholic ladies of England, full of respect and sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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