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When the publisher, a few weeks after the appearance of the first edition of my answer to Dr. Schulte, brought me the information that a second edition was required, and at the same time inquired of me whether I wished to alter anything, I told him I knew of nothing I wished to alter except a few misprints and particular words.

Since then, however, there has appeared a second enlarged edition of the work of Dr. Schulte, but as no notice was taken in it of my reply, this must be, I suppose, because both works were passing through the press at the same time. Dr. Schulte has made several additions to his second edition, which for the most part are only directed to confirm or enlarge the ground of the assertions he has made in his first.

There are, however, some new doctrinal statements of Popes, discovered by him and added in this second edition, which for the careful reader of my answer to his first work require no further refutation, since at least according to the principles laid down by me in my answer, and which are not disputed by either side, they cannot be regarded as ex cathedrâ utterances, and accordingly do not belong to the subject in hand. I mention, by way of example of such new Papal doctrinal statements,