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Church, to attribute it to your own lack of faith in 

 the pictured paper pellet. O Rome ! 



Well, what hope is there that Italy, beautiful Italy, 

 will some day break away from all this superstition, 

 this lie ? 



We visited the Capitoline Museum, and among the 

 many things there to be seen are wreaths, and busts, 

 pictures, and souvenirs of Garibaldi. That brave 

 Liberator's name and history are evidently dear to the 

 Italians. As I take it, that is one sign that things 

 are not quite what they were in Italy. Then there is 

 Father Curci (Coor-che), a priest with a wonderful 

 amount of influence a man for whom all the people 

 have much respect, because of his cleverness as a 

 writer and genial disposition as a friend. 



Curci translated the New Testament from the 

 original into Italian. Unfortunately his work is too 

 expensive for circulation among the common people. 

 In the preface he asks the question, What will satisfy 

 the present disturbed state of Europe ? Will the 

 restoration of the temporal power ? He thinks it 

 would not. He thinks that is gone, .never to come 

 back. Even if that would quiet Italy, Europe, he 

 says, would not permit it. 



He wrote another book soon after, in which he 

 shows up in a very bold way the want of harmony 



