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policy of the Church of Rome is predominant in all her actions. And that policy is nearly omnipotent. It is restrained by no such checks as are felt and obeyed by all other agents, in their degree, whether persons or communities. To the policy of the latter both real religion and true morality oppose many obstructions and restrictions which are insurmountable. But Rome is free and uncontrolled: she has no such fetters: she here enjoys, exercises, and riots in, the "liberties of her Church" to her extreme content. And this freedom naturally arises from her constitution and principles. Her supreme and ostentatiously professed object is, in her phraseology, the glory, or, to adopt the almost appropriated motto of her choicest sons, the glory