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 There is, however, another omission, or rather collection of omissions, which is more complete, and far more important, in all respects; and upon this it is my purpose to trespass at much greater length upon my reader's patience than I should otherwise feel justified in doing. It is — the omission, for the first time after about two centuries, of the proscribed names of, of , and of. The pontifical sponge has been applied to the triple blot which remained for so long a period on the pages of Rome's damnatory Index; and her sons are now, for the first time, free to think and write what all the world has long