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152 that, spontaneously, without any kind of previous conference, all the electors of one accord should simultaneously proclaim the same individual, may be dismissed without further comment as an altogether ideal conception,— in spite of ecclesiastical writers giving a list of Popes created by this process. Of much greater practical importance are the conditions regulating the second form, which we have seen was invented by