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 beyond dispute, beyond revision. Nor have you perceived how great were the hopes of those noble and generous souls who had devoted their lives to the reunion of the Protestant Church with the Catholic, and whose wings you have now clipped. Yet two years have not passed since you welcomed them with open arms, consoled them with your blessing, and promised them your co-operation.

The method which is adopted by the Vatican to repress and suffocate every manifestation of life and individual activity has thus concurred to increase the confusion of those who, with the faith and eagerness of Apostles, were cooperating in the Christian restoration of society. Censure, espionage, calumny, low and vulgar slander, have become the legitimate and ordinary means of persecuting every person of initiative. Every book which is the expression of new apologetic attempts, and is, in addition,