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DÖLLINGER ON THE TEMPORAL POWER 1

AFTER half a year's delay, Dr. Döl1inger has redeemed his promise to publish the text of those lectures which made so profound a sensation in the Catholic world. 2 We are sorry to find that the report which fell into our hands at the time, and from which we gave the account that appeared in our May Number, \vas both defective and incorrect; and we should further regret that we did not follow the example of those journals \vhich abstained from comment so long as no authentic copy was accessible, if it did not appear that, although the argument of the lecturer was lost, his meaning was not, on the whole, seriously misrepresented. Excepting for the sake of the author, who became the object, and of those \vho un- fortunately made thems l ves the organs, of so much calumny, it is impossible to lament the existence of the erroneous statements which have caused the present publication. Intending at first to prefix an introduction to the text of his lectures, the Professor has been led on by the gravity of the occasion, the extent of his subject, and the abundance of materials, to compose a book of 700 pages. Written with all the author's perspicuity of style, though \vithout his usual compression; with the exhaustless information which never fails him, but with an economy of quotation suited to the general public for whom it is designed, it betrays the circumstances of its origin. Subjects are sometimes introduced out of their

1 The Rambler, November 1861. 2 Ki1'che lmd Kirchen, Munich, 1861 (.. Papstum und Kirchenstaat "). 3 0r