COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUTHORS

TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

VOL. 1524.

ROME AND THE NEWEST FASHIONS IN RELIGION

BY THE
RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.

IN ONE VOLUME.

TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

By the same Author, BULGARIAN HORRORS AND RUSSIA IN TURKESTAN . I vol. THE HELLENIC FACTOR IN THE EASTERN PROBLEM. I vol.

ROME

AND

THE NEWEST FASHIONS IN RELIGION.

THREE TRACTS.

THE VATICAN DECREES.--VATICANISM.-

SPEECHES OF THE POPE.

BY THEX
RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.

COPYRIGHT EDITION.

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1875.

The Right of Translation is reserved.

Ø 15 Maldis

CONTENTS.

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PREFACE . . . . . . . . .

THE VATICAN DECREES.

1. THE OCCASION AND SCOPE OF THIS TRACT . . . .

Four Propositions. Are they True ?

II. THE FIRST AND FOURTH PROPOSITIONS

1. “That Rome has substituted for the Proud Boast of

"Semper eadem' a Policy of Violence and Change in

Faith."

4. “That she has equally repudiated Modern Thought and

Ancient History."

III. THE SECOND PROPOSITION.

“That she has refurbished, and paraded anew, every rusty

Tool she was thought to have disused.”

IV. THE THIRD PROPOSITION . . . . . . . .

“That Rome requires a Convert, who now joins her, to forfeit

his moral and mental Freedom, and to place his Loyalty and

Civil Duty at the mercy of another.”

V. BEING TRUE, ARE THE PROPOSITIONS MATERIAL? . . .

VI. BEING TRUE AND MATERIAL, WERE THE PROPOSITIONS PROPER

TO BE SET FORTH BY THE PRESENT WRITER

VII. ON THE HOME POLICY OF THE FUTURE . . . . .

APPENDICES. . . . . . . . . . .

VATICANISM.

1. INTRODUCTION . . . . .

The Replies which have appeared on this occasion. The

Insult. Evidences of Personal Loyalty, all that could be