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 180 is to say" exclaims Gratry, "behold a fact which overwhelms us. Let us prevent its being known."

The maxim that truth may be suppressed in the interests of religion roused Gratry's boundless indignation. Gratry himself had heard an Italian Prelate defend on this principle the condemnation of Galileo.

Gratry's strenuous protest is worth recording:—

The omission from the Roman Prayer Book of historic facts acknowledged until the sixteenth century was, to Gratry's mind, an equally miserable illustration of indefensible principles. "Never was there in history a more audacious forgery, a more insolent suppression of the weightiest facts." The systematic suppression of facts antagonistic to the Pope's absolute sovereignty and separate Infallibility ought, urged Gratry, to prevent us from proclaiming before God and man theories supported by such a method.

"This was the reason that Dupanloup had spoken. From God he will receive his reward. And all those