Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

158 Defects and their Remedy in lie-union.
openly rebel against that which is taught them
their own
if they do not like it ; they keep
disbelief, shrug
their shoulders and hold their
tongues. Nothing will ever make English
people hold their tongues. If they have
grievances or do not like the teaching they
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receive, all the world will speedily hear of it,
and they obstinately refuse to be taught anv
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more. As a mass they are a religious people,
and they want a religion which shall not be a
sham. External, and conventional observances
may suit a lazy people, but would never obtain
- in England, O even with the irreligious. - Religion
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must be practical
as well as
imaginative, and
it must offer them something better in the
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other world than the miserable hopes held out
by Protestantism. Their great prejudice
against the Catholic Faith arises from their
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dread of idolatry, and from the discouragement
of intellectual and social progress which they
perceive to exist in Catholic countries. The
first is a misconception, which however, the
popular practices abroad have to a great extent
justified, and for which intercourse with really
pious and intelligent Romans is the best cure.
The second they will also soon perceive to be a
merely modern and accidental phase, for they
must on consideration acknowledge that in the
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science and progress of the Middle Ages the
Church was the great leader, while the religion