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lions équivoques. A journey to Spain in 1865 made him more vehement than ever; although, from that time, the political opposition inflamed him less. He did not find imperialism intolerable. His \vrath was fixed on the things of which Spain had reminded him: "C'est là qu'il faut aller pour voir ce que Ie catholicisme exclusif a su faire d'une des plus grandes et des plus héroïques nations de la terre, - J e rapporte un surcroît d'horreur pour les doctrines fanatiques et absolutistes qui ont cours aujour- d'hui chez les catholiques du monde entier." In I 866 it became difficult, þy the aid of others, to overcome Falloux's resistance to the admission of an article in the Corres- fondant, and by the end of the year his friends were unanimous tQ exclude him. An essay on Spain, his last work-" dernier soupir de mon âme indignée et attristée"- was, by Dupanloup's advice, not allo\ved to appear. Re- pelled by those whom he no\v designated as spurious, servile, and prevaricating liberals, he turned to the po\verful German with whom he thought himself in sympathy. He had applauded him for dealing \vith one thing at a time, in his book on Rome: "V ous avez bien fait de ne rien dire de l'absolutisme spirituel, quant à, présent. Sat prata biberunt. Le reste viendra en son temps." He a.vo\ved that spiritual autocracy is worse than political; that evil passions which had triumphed in the State were triumphant in the Church; that to send human beings to the stake, with a crucifix before them, was the act of a monster or a maniac. - He was dying; but whilst he turned his face to the \vall, lamenting that he had lived too long, he wished for one more conference with the old friend \vith whom, thirty-five years before, in a less anxious time, he had discussed the theme of religio!1 and liberty. This was in February 1867; and for several years he had endeavoured to teach Döllinger his clear-cut antagonism, and to kindle in him something of his gloomy and passion- ate fervour, on the one point on \vhich all depended. Döllinger arrived slowly at the contemplation of deeper issues than that of churchmen or laymen in political offices) of Roman or German pupils in theo-