The Popes of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Popes of the Nineteenth Century "The Popes of the Nineteenth Century." This may seem to some an out-of-the-way and far-away subject to expect readers to be interested in. "Why concern ourselves about those old men to-day?" says some impatient critic. "They are dead and gone; and to us, entering on the second quarter of the twentieth century, their pontificates seem already as ancient history. Why bother about them now? They are back numbers: let their story rest in peace on the dusty lumber-shelf! I have never taken much stock in Popes, and for dead and departed Popes I have absolutely no use." The Danger of Ignorant Indifference. Such is a too common and characteristic expression of the average British Protestant´s apathetic aloofness with regard to the Vatican and its age-long line of quasi-divine inhabitants. These are to him just strangely-applauded foreign personalities living in a palace away in Italy, surrounded by much pomp and splendour: and it is no business of his if their followers or subjects hold them in peculiar reverence, and choose to speak with bated breath of "our Lord God the Pope" as "Vicegerent of God," and "Vicar of Jesus Christ," and "Apostolic successor of St. Peter." This easy unconcern may be appraised by some as "thoroughly English, you know." But the Popes, after all, have long been, and continue to be, at the head of a vast and closely-articulated organisation, inspired by a purpose and regulating a policy whose subtle influence makes itself felt throughout the world, and has an incidence on every department of human life. And John Bull - "good easy man" - can ill afford, if he but knew it, to treat this great system, so far-reaching and penetrating, with careless indifference or nonchalant disdain. The Papacy, if it had the power as it has the will, would govern the world; and we of this British nation and empire have peculiar reason to seek to acquaint ourselves with its true spirit, and to keep an eye on its practical policy. The Papacy´s World-embracing Project. It is simple folly to ignore the fact that, with its world-embracing project in view, the Papacy´s supreme ambition has for generations been to re-subjugate Britain, and to undo what its votaries regard and deplore as "the Deformation" in England and, if possible, in Scotland also. 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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