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The Age of Great Cities

The Age of Great Cities

Vaughan, Robert

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ISBN10: 1150710411
ISBN13: 9781150710414
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.21 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1843. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SECTION m. ON THE COMPARATIVE PROSPECT OF CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. We hear much, almost every day, concerning the revival of Catholicism. It is said to be diffusing itself, as with new vigour, in Britain, on the Continent, in the United States, and in many of our Colonies. There may be much exaggeration in these representations--among Protestant alarmists on the one side, and among Catholic zealots on the other. But that there is a considerable revival of zeal within the pale of the Roman-catholic church, and that the members of that church are extending her cords and strengthening her stakes, in the hope that her tent may soon be made to embrace a much larger multitude, is not to be doubted. But the increase of Catholicism is a matter which is sure not to come without observation. In countries where Catholics are the great majority, any increase of zeal to make proselytes, must become the more conspicuous as being that of the greater number; while the disposition toward pomp and display, on the part of the Catholic, must tend to give more notoriety to the achievements of such zeal in that connexion, than in connexion with Protestantism. It must be a very general, and a very powerful effort indeed, on the part of the million and a half of Protestants in France, which should be found to attract as much of public attention, as would be secured by a much feebler movement as affecting the proportion of the remaining thirty millions who profess themselves Catholics. The increased energy displayed by Catholicism in Great Britain, we regard as feeble, compared with that which has been evinced by Protestantism during the last half century--the converts occasionally made to Catholicism being of little weight, as opposed to the multitudes who have been raised during...

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