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34019But why should one take trouble to insist upon the advance of science and art in the medieval city? 34019 Does it not seem to you that we have rightly and deservedly departed from the curiosity of all these men, so idle and so full of error?"
34019--"_tantaene animae celestibus irae_"--and we might be tempted to ask, can there be such foolish intolerance on the part of scientific teachers?
340191 May Catholics dissect?
34019But it will at once be said, what of Galileo?
34019Dante says:--"Perceive ye not we are of a wormlike kind, Born to bring forth the angel butterfly, That soars to Judgment, and no screen doth find?
34019Does not his case show the anti- scientific temper of churchmen?
34019How do our cities of 100,000 inhabitants compare with it?)
34019Long ago Virgil asked in a famous line,"Is it possible that there can be such great wrath in divine minds?"
34019Should we not rather maintain that they helped save science from its enemies?
34019That the careers of these men are profitless, who shall allege?
34019The Arabs and Paris said:"Why dissect if you trust Galen?
34019Till Pliny of the first century after Christ, what Roman was a scientist?
34019Virchow, in his address at Rome, said Morgagni was the first pathological anatomist who, instead of asking What is disease?
34019Whence shall this be obtained-- from religion or from some temporal reward?
34019Who would guess from this brief epitome of Eusebius''views that the latter had devoted to the subject more than thirty pages?
34019Why doth your soul lift up itself on high?
34019Why should a permission be necessary, however, will be asked?
34019With these seven centuries can we not properly compare the later seven in which the Christian Fathers were the teachers of the civilized world?
34019Yet what writer of to- day rises to charge them with a cardinal sin, because Science remained at a standstill among them for seven full centuries?
34019_ Analogous Examples_.--Should we be surprised, then, if men so occupied failed to add much to the world''s store of scientific knowledge?
34019asked Where is it?"
16242Are they(_ i.e._, the doctrines about which he is seeking information) contained in the Word of God? 16242 What,"asks a well- known writer in unfeigned astonishment,"what opinion is not held within the Established Church?
16242And who is he?
16242But does this or does it not contradict the fact that we are dependent beings, and that the Lord, He is God?
16242But how does the Anglican Archbishop proceed to calm and comfort this helpless, agitated soul, groping painfully in the dark?
16242But now?
16242But, let us ask, Who ever heard of an army without a chief?
16242But, to continue; what is the purpose of this extraordinary and enduring presence?
16242By whom?
16242Can any one imagine greater reverence or greater loyalty to the Vicar of Christ than is shown forth in these words?
16242Can the present Archbishop of Canterbury follow their example?
16242Could you possibly mistake it for the religion of the present Church of England?
16242Dai Rè?
16242Dai Vescovi?
16242Dalle masse dei fedeli?
16242Defender of what Faith?
16242Did any one ever witness such an exhibition of ineptitude and spiritual asthenia?
16242Did he promise to visit Rome every three years, to give his Lord the Pope an account of his diocese?
16242Did he receive the Pallium from Rome, sent by special Papal messengers?
16242Did he stand up and swear on the Gospels that he would be faithful and obedient to his Lord the Pope?
16242Did he take a vow of celibacy?
16242Does the present Archbishop acknowledge publicly and officially that he receives his jurisdiction from the Pope?
16242FOOTNOTES:[ Footnote 9:"Da chi dipenderà   il Pontefice nell''esercizio del suo potere Spirituale?
16242First: How is it possible for the Church to go astray, if God the Holy Ghost is really guiding?
16242Have words lost their plain meaning for the Bishop of London, and for those who( we must in charity suppose,_ blindly_) follow him?
16242How do we know?
16242How does he do this?
16242How has this been possible?
16242How is it that such a thing has ceased to be possible?
16242How was His truth to be maintained and securely developed, century after century, pure and untainted, and free from all admixture of error?
16242How?
16242If not, then what becomes of the continuity theory?
16242If you, who read these lines, had stood by, and listened to this oath, would it leave any doubt in your minds as to the religion of the Archbishop?
16242Is Christ divided?
16242Is it by the Holy Spirit whispering to each individual priest or to each individual Bishop?
16242Is it conceivable that such consent would be given by any Pope in the case of one not united to Rome in the same faith?]
16242Now, what did Edward do?
16242Second: How is it possible for the Church to wander away into_ error_, if this same Spirit be leading her into_ all truth_?
16242The Incarnate Son of God, who never asks, nor can ask in vain, implored His Heavenly Father, that all His followers might be one, and why?
16242The same?
16242Then what does he do?
16242Then what_ superhuman_ guarantee did He offer?
16242WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
16242WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
16242Was it the Protestant faith?
16242Was it the faith professed by the present Church of England?
16242Was the present Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury chosen and appointed by the Pope?
16242Were not Dr. Wilberforce and Dr. Colenso, Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Baring equally Bishops of the Church of England?
16242What can be clearer, what more explicit?
16242What is his Grace''s reply?
16242What is it for?
16242What is the consequence?
16242What is the consequence?
16242What then, it may be asked, is the proper attitude of a Catholic towards the Pope, at ordinary times?
16242What was to be our security?
16242Who is this distinguished man, now called to rule over that portion of the one Catholic Church represented by England?
16242Whom shall we believe?
16242Why are these good men so exceedingly anxious to prove that black is white?
16242Why do Anglicans make such heroic efforts to connect their Church with the past?
16242Why do they advance an impossible theory?
16242Why do they assert, and with such emphasis, what no one but they themselves have the hardihood to believe?
16242Why is it given?
16242Why not?
16242Why will they assert and re- assert, in every mood and tense, that things most opposite are identical, and things most unlike are exactly the same?
16242Why will they stubbornly affirm what history utterly denies?
16242Why?
16242Will some one kindly explain that, without at the same time denying the veracity of God?
16242Would the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, for instance, or the Archbishop of Milan receive the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, as a brother Bishop?
16242Would they cause their cathedrals to be thrown open to him?
16242[ 11] How is it that the present Church of England has never canonised any saint?
16242who on his coronation day declared the Mass to be false, Transubstantiation to be absurd, and Catholics to be idolaters?
14381But is there no motive in this world nobler than interest? 14381 Do you know what you are asking for?"
14381Do you think, then, the means are to be found of giving us an army as proud and as faithful as the French army? 14381 For how long?"
14381How much did they charge you for going over it?
14381I must think no more about it?
14381Is he here?
14381Monsignore?
14381Perhaps, then, you think we ought to send our soldiers to make war, before employing them as guardians of the peace?
14381What will it be?
14381What would you have? 14381 Who was on duty yesterday?"
14381Why, Gentlemen, does the law severely punish murderers, and sometimes go the length of inflicting upon them the penalty of death? 14381 [ 5]"I suppose you''ve seen the Villa Borghese?"
14381''What can you be thinking of?''
14381A young ragamuffin, who drove me from Rimini to Santa Maria, let slip a terrible expression, which I have often thought of since:"God?"
14381An Italian has said with pungent irony,"Who knows but that one of these days a powerful microscope may detect globules of nobility in the blood?"
14381And after all, where''s the great evil?
14381And is money the only lasting tie that binds soldiers to their standard?"
14381And pray what authority can it possess in the eyes of your subjects, if the Government affect to despise it?"
14381And why?
14381Are municipal liberties at all extended?
14381Are such keepers likely to give up the keys?
14381Are the different powers still confounded in practice?
14381Are the higher posts in the State still by law interdicted to laymen?
14381Are the people fat and thriving?
14381Are the public finances publicly administered?
14381Are they as well treated as beasts in a cage?
14381Are they"devoid of energy,"as M. de Rayneval declares?
14381Are we in a position to ensure our tranquillity by our own forces?
14381Are we to infer from this that they are incapable of becoming a nation?
14381But as for us( counsel and client), what have we killed?
14381But could he not be so at a somewhat less cost?
14381But what could the will of two men avail against the passive resistance of a caste?
14381But why should not the Head of the Church do as Pius V., who sent his sailors with the Spaniards and Venetians to the battle of Lepanto?
14381But will the Pope and the Cardinals easily resign themselves to the condition of mere ministers of religion?
14381By what is the Catholic world governed?
14381Can one conceive a more ridiculous pretension?
14381Can they, on that score at least, applaud their Government?
14381Can we consistently admit nobility among horses and dogs, and deny it among men?
14381Do n''t they well know-- dukes and princes-- that they are all alike inferior to the shabbiest of the cardinals?
14381Do the descendants of Marius appear to you a race without courage, incapable of confronting danger?
14381Do we suffice for ourselves?
14381Do you really believe he thought of becoming the benefactor of the nation?--or the saviour of the Papacy?--or the Don Quixote of the Church?
14381Do you require us to declare war against Europe for the sake of teaching our gendarmes to keep the peace at home?"
14381Do you then, or do you not, wish to create a national force?
14381Does he fear lest some enemy should invade his States?
14381Does not he strike you as being somewhat changed?
14381Does the Constitution of 1848, or the_ Motu Proprio_ of 1849, set limits to this authority?
14381Does the Pope want to aggrandise himself by war?
14381Does the nation vote the taxes, or are they taken from the nation?
14381For after all, what is his end?
14381Has he deprived himself of the right of overruling the decisions of the Courts of Appeal?
14381Has the Cardinal Secretary of State ceased to be a reigning Minister?
14381Has the Pope abandoned any portion of his infallibility as to worldly matters?
14381Has the Pope renounced his title of administrator, or irresponsible guardian of the patrimony of Catholicism?
14381Has the temporal power served its own interests better than it has those of God?
14381Have they forgotten it?
14381Have we succeeded?
14381Have you any wish to see manufactories erected round St. Peter''s and turnip fields about the fountain of Egeria?
14381Have you made up your mind on the subject?
14381He pays the widow a pension: is not this the act of a clever man?
14381How can you cultivate without men?
14381How can you expect men to inhabit it at the risk of their lives?
14381How do we find the Government acting in this respect?
14381How do you know, that the particular abuse which most offends you is not absolutely necessary to the very existence of Rome?
14381If Deacons are thus privileged, what latitude may we not claim who have not even assumed the tonsure?
14381If some one, more ambitious than his fellows, undertakes an original work, whose opinion can he obtain as to its merits or demerits?
14381In what hope, with what aim, did he come down from the mountains of Sonnino?
14381Is it likely that we shall find the Austrian army seeking to render its presence needless, and spontaneously returning home?
14381Is it my fault if the people respect nothing but the ecclesiastical garb?"
14381Is it not much better to let the 100 rubbia to a cattle- breeder, who will pay a rent of thirty or forty shillings per rubbio?
14381Is it not the admitted right of the Sovereign Pontiff to absolve men even from the most solemn oaths?
14381Is it their fault?
14381Is it true that, since 1846, the Papal Government has ceased to be the worst in Europe?
14381Is not his hand on his hip?
14381Is the absolute authority of the Papacy limited in any way but by the individual virtues of the Pope?
14381Is the management of public affairs exclusively in the hand of prelates?
14381Is there a Council of Ministers?
14381Is this because, as with us in France, an equitable law is constantly subdividing large properties?
14381Is_ mortmain_ indeed the hand which kills?
14381Might he not at least assist the unfortunate peasants who furnish the bread he eats?
14381Now which has proved the heaviest scourge-- the_ Oidium_ or the Cardinal Minister?
14381Or are we to conclude that they deem it expedient to mask their real sentiments because M. de Rothschild has millions to spare?
14381Pray, what position do you assign to your Generals?
14381Public works, institutions of credit, police-- But why plunge into such a sea of hopes?
14381Shades of the travellers of the olden time-- delicate, subtle, genial spirits-- what think you of conversations such as this?
14381Shall our diplomatists repeat in 1859 this same part of dupes?
14381The Church, then, winked at a case of bigamy?
14381The Romans ask punningly which is the uppermost, the Pope or Antonelli?
14381The observation of this worthy man was,"What can you expect?
14381Think you he is sufficiently estranged from the things of this world to sacrifice heroically the earth, which is near, to the Heaven, which is remote?
14381This being the case, why are not the Roman princes richer than they are?
14381To comply with your request, we must spend our income for the benefit of our successors: and what care we for our successors?
14381Was it for the sake of giving three millions of men an active and vigorous overseer?
14381Were the Piedmontese in the Crimea, then, wanting in the military spirit?
14381What are warriors who have never made war?"
14381What becomes of independence?
14381What becomes of sovereignty?"
14381What bounty do you offer to recruits?"
14381What could I reply to such reasoning?
14381What do they complain of?
14381What do you think of our Romans?
14381What internal factions has he suppressed?
14381What is it but an Association that wastes the revenue of the poor Romans?
14381What is the consequence?
14381What is the meaning of it all?
14381What is the mission of the Pontifical Government?
14381What is their rank in the hierarchy?"
14381What matters it to the successors of the Apostles that a few workmen and peasants should cut one another''s throats after Sunday Vespers?
14381What necessity was there for yielding to our arguments?
14381What prince could forgive such aggravated insolence?
14381What remonstrances from without has he silenced?
14381What then happens?
14381What think you of such moderation?
14381What was to be done?
14381What will Europe ever know about the matter?
14381What would be said of the French administration, if people could not get from Versailles to St. Germain without passing through Paris?
14381What would become of us if he abandoned us?"
14381When he suppressed the Order of the Jesuits, was it to reinforce the army of the Church, or to please his master in France?
14381Where are the buyers of these products of the earth?
14381Where should we establish our dethroned sovereigns?
14381Where would a home be found for Roman Catholic worship?
14381Which of the two is in the wrong?
14381Whither should I go if Rome were to be turned topsy- turvy?
14381Who can tell what events they are destined to witness in their time?
14381Who keeps up agitation at Genoa, at Leghorn, and, above all, at Home?
14381Who lays waste the forests of the State?
14381Who monopolizes their corn, their hemp, their oil?
14381Who take possession of the highways, stop diligences, and lay travellers under contribution?
14381Who, or what, could induce a man to rush into a career in which there is at a certain point an impassable barrier?
14381Whose fault is it?
14381Whose fault is this?
14381Why seek to conceal from Europe so natural an order of things?
14381Why should it follow our advice?
14381Why should you not detach a regiment or two to Algeria?
14381Will they willingly renounce their political influence?
14381You ask them in turn, what epidemic has depopulated the country?
14381You have no doubt been told that some people are dissatisfied with the administration: but what of that?
14381from Gaeta to re- establish him at the Vatican?