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 Rh ground that, in having pronounced this, he had practically presumed on assuming a power of control over 'the freedom and union of the Apostolic College in its so needful mystic body.' In other words, Pope Clement recognised a divine instinct resident in the Church as ever embodied in its living representatives, which it must be beyond the legitimate authority of a Pope to presume on superseding and controlling from out of his grave in virtue of some decree of his own. This power of supersession and control has now however been laid claim to by Pius in this noteworthy Brief, which must be held to mark an epoch in the discipline of the Roman system, and in the development of Papal autocracy, if the dictatorial sentence promulgated in it for Cardinals assembled in Conclave comes to be really accepted by them as of binding force.