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190 Postscript on Catholic Unity.
Christians. A sect has lately sprung up, ger
minated from the brains of a French
philosopher, for the very purpose,
it would
seem, of recalling to men s mind this great
truth, though they so present as to caricature
"
it. The volume of Essavs on International
Policy," which has just appeared, gives
abundant evidence of this, and the genuine
enthusiasm displayed by several of the writers
in setting forth the paramount obligations of
common brotherhood and individual self-sacri
fice for the good of the race cannot but
command our respect.* We may marvel indeed
at their announcing as a discovery of their own
"
what took its
origin from the Redeemer s new
"
commandment and its energy from His dying
should seek to knit afresh
prayer ; that they
the bonds of a universal human sympathy
apart from that higher unity whereof the
Church is the legitimate expression, and which
finds its justification and its centre in Him who
is alone the true Root of Humanity, the
"
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Daysman betwixt man and GOD who can
lay His hand upon both. But we must, if we
are honest, acknowledge to our shame that only
through our practical forgetfulness
of the first
* See especially Mr. Brydges able and interesting article
on England and China, and his fearless exposure of our
iniquitous (let me add unchristian) policy towards that
country.
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