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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lian Parlia-he sent seventeen thousand men to take ment had proclaimed Victor Emmanuelpart in the campaign, which pleased the King of Italy, in 1861, and had declaredAustrians so little that they hanged a that Pome was the capital of the newRoman soldier whom they had taken kingdom, although the court still re-prisoner, and inscribed upon his gallows: mnined in Turin, Pius IX. declared that Thus do we treat tin soldiers of Pius he could not, without gravely woundingIX. his conscience, make any alliance withIn 1848 the lope was a bolder politi- modern civilization. Shortly after thatcian than any great secular sovereign in he. in one of his allocutions, condemnedEurope. When he saw the Revolution that same modern civilization, whichfairly in progress, and observed that the does not even prevent heretics fromsweeping changes which were made ia taking public office, and which opensFrance were likely to be insisted on in Catholic schools to their children. In EUROPE IX STORM AND CALM. 400
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THE LAST BENEDICTION OF POPE PIUS IX. 410 EUROPE IX STORM A\/> CALM. 1864, In published a syllabus, in whichtin Church fulminated against the wholeDemocratic theory, and opposed cate-gorically and with the most tremendousenergy every doctrine of the French Rev-olution and uf the Little revolutionswhich had grown out of it, and almostevery achievement of modern sciencewhich had led to Liberalism in thoughtand action. In 18C7 he published an encyclical let-ter against the Italian government, andcondemned all the laws voted by thenational parliament for secularizing theestates of the Chinch. He declaredagainst the increased facilities for thehigher instruction of women in France,against the liberal laws which Austriawas beginning to make in harmony withmodern ideas. — laws recognizing the lib-erty of conscience and of the press, mixedmarriages, primary instruction, etc.,These laws, he said, were abominable,contrary to doctrine, to the rights and totin constitution of the Church. In

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