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to those German or Saxon lands where 

 there had been a freer revival of science 

 and letters and a national life never so 

 fettered by papal despotism. Nor is it 

 strange that the old attachment to the 

 Church of the past, the memories of 

 the noblest age of scholars and saints, the 

 Church entwined with all the faith and 

 habit of the people, should remain. The 

 Old Catholic movement is the best com- 

 mentary on this fact. We cannot look 

 save with love and reverence on men like 

 Dollinger and Hyacinthe who could not, 

 till the last, give up their ancient religion, 

 but dreamed of a reformed papacy; and 

 we must be content that such move- 

 ments shall work themselves out in such 

 sober ways as may bring reform without 

 destruction. It may be long before Rome 

 shall lose this power which it has by its 

 antiquity, and its seeming unity. It lives 

 as the mistletoe, which keeps its own green 

 bloom by the sap it draws from the trunk, 

 but strangles the gigantic oak at last. But 

 aofain it has its life from the influence it 

 exerts beyond its own communion over the 

 minds of many in a time of religious quarrel 

 and unbelief. It seems to rise before the 



