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 210 his statesman-brother. Meanwhile Prince Hohenlohe was with Döllinger in Munich. He was there when Döllinger received an autograph letter from the King of Bavaria, praising his pamphlet against Infallibility. The Cardinal wrote again from Rome to say:—

But the helplessness of the opposition is curiously illustrated in the same letter. Cardinal Schwarzenberg, a strong advocate of the minority, wanted greatly to get Döllinger to Rome; yet he could not decide to send for him as his theologian. Cardinal Hohenlohe wanted greatly to receive the German Bishops at his house every week, yet he could not make up his mind to do it. He is afraid the Pope would forbid them to assemble at his house. By February 1870 difficulties increased vastly. "The situation," wrote DÖllinger to Hohenlohe "becomes more grave and threatening." It was just announced that the Archbishop of Munich intended to go over to the Infallibilists. Friedrich was by this time lodged with Cardinal Hohenlohe in Rome, who was "managing to keep him in spite of all enemies." "Stupidity and fanaticism," wrote the Cardinal, "are dancing a Tarantella together, accompanied by such discordant music that one can hardly see or hear."

Friedrich is, of course, a violent partisan, and no