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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER n1. A POLICY OF CONCILIATION. Leo adopts a policy of general conciliation?But cannot accept the terms of the Italian government?Publishes a Bull re-establishing the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland?His first Encyclical Letter?His personal appearance and manners. LEO the Thirteenth was, however, a very different man from Pius the Ninth. Leo understood the world as it is. He was a scientific man: he thought much; he was accustomed to analyse the dispositions of people and of races; he well knew that he had to work by wit and not by witchcraft. Therefore while he maintained irrevocably the position taken up by Pius the Ninth, and refused to give any sanction to the new political conditions, he did not thrust himself into prominent struggles against them. There was a great deal of the practical about him, in the higher sense. The time of protest, he seems to have thought, has passed away. The protest was for the hour when the deed was about to be done or had just been done. Now the only thing to do is to hold to the principle of rion-recognition, but not to make too much of a work about it, and in the mean time to get all the good that can be got out of the existing conditions, such as they are. Pope Leo appears to have made up his mind that for the present, at least,there was no human chance of breaking through the new conditions, and, therefore, to have set himself to see whether the life of a Pope might not still be a great influence for good under them or in spite of them. To the average Englishman at the time, the whole matter seemed a very easy business. The Italians have a right to Italy, and the right to Italy includes, of course, a right to Rome as the capital. Which nobody can deny For England had taken fast hold of the doctrine of nationalities in tho...
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