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8 the Civil Government, it is exclusive, despotic and grasping; but when, as in England, and until lately in Canada, it is unconnected with the State, it confines itself to its proper functions of teaching piety and morality.

To prove that the policy of adaptation is not a vague or unsupported charge, but has been the principle upon which the Church of Rome has invariably acted, I shall have to quote at length from the writings of Dr. Joseph Fessler, late Secretary General to the Vatican Council, in his work on the "True and the False Infallibility of the Popes," which was a defense and explanation of the Dogmatic Decrees, and which received a Brief of Approbation from Pius IX.