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Excerpt from The Political Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation: A Lecture
The New York Catholic Institute have done me the honor to ask me to repeat before this larger audience, the lecture which I deliver ed to their members, in December last, on the Political Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation. Not being ac customed to read lectures, I cannot promise to repeat, word for word, what I then said, but the same arguments I used then, I mean to use to-night, because they are the only arguments on this subject which I believe to be sound and true.
Of the weight of the subject itself I need say nothing. We are affected by it, our fathers were affected by it, our children and their children will feel its remote consequences; every book, paper, and pamphlet we read is full of it; it mingles in every public debate, it comes up in every private conversation. Our public men speak of before the Reformation, as describing one state of political facts, and after the Reformation, as describing another and a very different state of facts. One would suppose a subject so much talked of ought to be well understood, yet such, I venture to assert, is not the case - ninety-nine out of every hundred, Who discourse so fluently of this great event, by all I could ever learn from their language, seem to be entirely ignorant of the circumstances under which it transpired, of the motives, the men, and the results, of what they call The Reformation.
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