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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and done. Liberty of speechand of the pen has jnostitutedthe cause of liberty, and tliis isthe result. The Appeal Against actual to the crime and redhaud-Conscience. . . . , . , ed criminals society■v\-ill continue to wage more or less successful war A\Tiththe aid of gendarmes and detectives. But jails and gal-lows and guillotines are but miserable substitutes forthe all-pervading sense of moral obligation to God andman which, even for mere police pui-poses, was worthall the tithes ever lavished upon the Church. It maybe replied that the Church failed, even when its powerwas trib gi-eatest, as signally in the repression ofcrime as in the regeneration of society; but no onecan deny the immense restraining force which religionhas exercised upon the passions of men. Yet, insteadof welcoming its services, there are many philosopherswho, even when confronted with the consequences ofthe decay of athe moral sense and the extinction ofthe belief in the survival of the soul after death, seem
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ARCHBISHOP VAUGHAN. to desire nothing so much as still further to silencethe voice of conscience, as expressed through theChristian pulpit. M. Renan ridicules the Pope forhis well-meant attempt to make the Church oncemore a potent force in the affairs of man, and theFrench Gov?rnment issues circulars of denunciationand of protest against those biave priests who haveattempted to teach from their pulpits the Christianconception of politics and society. To preach politicalsermons is to provoke disorder in the Church.Therefore, the priests must be gagged, so that theremay be peace and silence in the sanctuary. M. Renanand the Republicans are sacrificing the life of theChurch to its clothes. Ceremonial may be verystately and impressive and mystic, but it was not THE PROGRESS OF THE IVOR LP. 529 The Functionsof the Church. ceremonial tliat civilized Europe and es-tablished the Pope in the City of theCiesars. It was the foolishness of preach-ing emphasized by the martyrdom of thepreacher tha

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