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714the first category as the final word, but only as their own piu desire, testifying totheir conviction:That everything that is most Christian, most holy and best... will,inevitably, receive approbation, authority and prevalence in our fraternalcommunion.Ask for daily prayer,Tell them about Juilly and Kamocki... 1031 Paris, the end of 183814).[To Bishop] 1032That we do not publish Young Poland; that I have been requested tosubmit my own similar prospectus, to be presented to the Holy Father.That there are a dozen or more of us, living together in complete unity andin the spirit of obedience. Moreover, we have many friends....That we do not become members of any political party, whether that ofPrince Czartoryski or of his adversaries, and that we dissuade those who wish toenter our community from doing so. For the one and the other are full of hatredfor one another - ready for a war of extermination among themselves. Both theformer and the latter do not base their projects and fundamental maxims onGospel principles; but rather on various inventions of human wisdom honored bythe evil spirit of our age; or, on constitutional principles in which everythingseems to be figured out wisely; but they do not recognize the one and only truth -Christ and his Church; or, they base themselves on a variety of opinions,congresses, traditional parliamentary opinions, etc. whose beginning and end,unknown to those who accept them, are false, disastrous, satanic; which havedestroyed the primitive unity of Christianity; it is our conviction that the1031 This outline is preserved in CRR: Mss 8627, p. 591.1032 The former Ordinary of Cracow: Charles Sarius Skórkowski.

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