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DErXII AND INGENUITY OF TOrERY.IGOthe voice of the Church of Rome as the voice of God liiinself,was ever uppermost in the mind, and held such an influenceand a mastery over the whole intellectual powers,over the whole rational being, that it bowed in the humilityof a child before everything that came with even the apparentauthority of the Church. I never could have believedthe extent of this if I had not witnessed it in theseremarkable instances.""* As a piece of intellectual mechanismPopei'y has never been equalled, and probably will neverbe surpassed. As the pyramids have come down to ourday, and bear their testimony to the skill and power of theearly Egyptians, so Popery, long after its day is over, willbe seen towering across the interval of ages, a stupendousmonument of the power for evil which lies in the humansoul, and of the prodigious efforts the mind of man can putforth, when impelled to action by hatred to God and the desireof self-aggrandizement.* Moi-nings among the Jesuits at Rome, by the Rev. M. H. Seymour,pp. 5, 6 JLondon, 1849.