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pious institutions, far and wide in our land proclaiming 

 the deep and earnest nature of our religious progress. 

 Even the very fanaticisms of ' sabbath observance ' and 

 ' bibliolatry ' are replete with Catholic ascetic and devo- 

 tional instincts, however misdirected. 



"In the Protestant masses of to-day is contained an 

 immense body of latent Catholicism, like some chemical 

 substance in solution, which but requires a sudden change 

 of temperature or the introduction of some foreign body 

 to precipitate itself, or become manifest in a conspicuous 

 crystalisation. The number of those who have really 

 understood the Church and rejected her is infinitesimal, 

 and article after article, and book after book, again and 

 again show how profoundly she is misapprehended, and 

 how the mass of the hostility directed against her is really 

 directed not against her, but against that to which she also 

 is no less opposed. 



" Even the anarchic spirit of the ' Internationalists ' is 

 in one respect really vivified by a profound Christian 

 spirit the spirit of cosmopolitanism. They clearly see 

 that a man who would sacrifice the welfare of the world 

 to that of his country is only one degree less selfish 

 than the man who would sacrifice his country to aggran- 

 dise his family. What was the very first step in the 

 destruction of the Christian theocracy becomes thus con- 

 demned and reprobated by the logical descendants of such 

 destroyers as Philip the Fair and Henry the Eighth. 



