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legitimate when it has been distributed among the poor. Be this as 

 it may, this is the attitude which we have supposed the Roman 

 Catholic Church to take up not striving to win over, or fancying 

 that it can win over, the Reds, but offering to that great mass of poor 

 men and women who are as yet neither Reds nor Catholics in any 

 very definite sense, a creed as full of sympathy for their sufferings and 

 on the whole less tied down to promises which those who make them 

 cannot perform. We do not deny that the view which says, 'Why 

 should we resign ourselves to the endurance of evils for which we 

 shall never get any compensation ?' has many attractions for energetic 

 spirits, and at times when resignation is not the only course open. 

 But in the long run it has always been found that sufferings and in- 

 justices are not removed by a resolution not to submit to them ; and 

 whenever this discovery is made, there will always be a chance for 

 the view which preaches submission to inevitable evils in the belief 

 that they will be redressed hereafter." 



