[To run EDITOZ Or Tut " Sprorsvoa."] Sin — There is little
doubt that the line taken in the article bearing the above title in your issue of December 8th is the correct one. It is interesting at this critical time to recall the opinion of W. E. It Lecky, an Irishman, with a thorough knowledge of the operations of the Roman Church, in his History of England in the Eighteenth Century. In chap. ii., Vol. I., he says:— " Catholicism, indeed, never can be looked upon merely as a religion. It is a great and highly organised kingdom, recognising no geographical frontiers, governed by a foreign sovereign, per- vading temporal polities with its manifold influence, and attracting to itself much of the enthusiasm which would otherwise flow in national channels. The intimate correspondence between its priests in many lands, the disciplined unity of their political action, the almost absolute authority they exercise over large classes, and their usually almoet complete detachment from purely national and patriotic interests, have often in critical times proved a most eerious political danger, and they have sometimes pursued a temporal policy eminently aggressive: sanffainary, unscrupulous, and ambitious."
—I am, Sir, &c., CARADOC.
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