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in a fragmentary shape, but they convey an idea of

the fervid eloquence of the speaker, and Mr. Bacon's translation is fluent and spirited. We quote one passage, which has a special interest at the present time, though the selection is hardly fair to Father Hyacinthe :— "It is no fault of ours if we have imputed to us, every day, under this name of theocracy, that notion which we have openly combated and vanquished,—the confusion in the same hands of political and religious power, both of which come from above, but separately and differently. Nowhere in Catholic Christendom do I find this fearful confusion. If you point me to Rome, I do not find the confusion of these two powers, but the exceptional alliance of them, in a place which is itself exceptional, like a miracle. Beneficent alliance ! league of the liberty of conscience, never to be untwined, since it unites there what there is need to separate everywhere besides !"