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Title: The Catholic World, Vol. 26, October, 1877, to March, 1878
A Monthly Eclectic Magazine

Author: E. Rameur

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THE

CATHOLIC WORLD.

A

MONTHLY MAGAZINE

OF

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

VOL. XXVI.

OCTOBER, 1877, TO MARCH, 1878.

NEW YORK:

THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY

Company,

9 Barclay Street.

1878.

Copyrighted by
I. T. HECKER,

1878.

THE NATION PRESS, 27 ROSE STREET, NEW YORK.

CONTENTS.

A Final Philosophy,
610

A Glance at the Indian Question,
195

A Great Bishop,
625

A Legend of Dieppe,
264

A Ramble after the Waits,
485

A Silent Courtship,
39

A Sweet Revenge,
179, 384

Among the Translators,
309, 732

Africa, Religion on the East Coast of,
411

Catholic Circles for Working-men in France,
529

Charles Lever at Home,
203

Christianity as an Historical Religion,
434, 653

Church of England, Confession in the,
590

Compostella, St. James of,
163

Confession in the Church of England,
590

Criminals and their Treatment,
56

Descent of Man, The,
496

Dieppe, A Legend of,
264

Dr. Draper and Evolution,
774

Evolution, Dr. Draper and,
774

Fortifications of Rome, Civiltà Cattolica on the,
403

Free-Religionists, The,
145

French Home Life,
759

Froude on the “Revival of Romanism,”
289

Froude on the Decline of Protestantism,
470

German Element in the United States,
372

Hedge-Poets, The Irish,
406

Holy Cave of Manresa, The,
821

How Steenwykerwold was Saved,
547

Indian Policy, our New, and Religious Liberty,
90

Indian Question, A Glance at the,
195

Industrial Crisis, Character of the Present,
122

Ireland in 1878,
721

Irish Hedge-Poets, The,
406

Isles of Lérins, The,
685

Italy, The Outlook in,
1

Jamaica, Religion in,
69

Lérins, The Isles of,
685

Lever at Home,
203

Man, The Descent of,
496

Manresa, The Holy Cave of,
821

Marguerite,
73

Marquette, Father James, Death of, and Discovery of his Remains,
267

Michael the Sombre,
599, 791

Mickey Casey’s Christmas Dinner-Party,
512

Mont St. Michel, The Last Pilgrimage to,
128

Mormonism, The Two Prophets of,
227

Mystery of the Old Organ,
356

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Organ, The Mystery of the Old,
356

Our New Indian Policy and Religious Liberty,
90

Papal Elections,
537, 811

Philosophy, A Final,
610

Pilgrimage, The Last, to Mont St. Michel,
128

Pius the Ninth,
846

Polemics and Irenics in Scholastic Philosophy,
337

Preachers on the Rampage,
700

Protestantism, Froude on the Decline of,
470

Protestant Episcopal Convention and Congress,
395

Religion in Jamaica,
69

Religion on the East Coast of Africa,
411

Roc Amadour,
23

Romanism, Froude on the Revival of,
289

Rome, The Civiltà Cattolica on the Fortifications of,
403

Science, The God of “Advanced,”
251

Scholastic Philosophy, Recent Polemics and Irenics in,
337

St. Hedwige,
108

St. James of Compostella,
163

The Character of the Present Industrial Crisis,
122

The God of “Advanced” Science,
251

The Home-Rule Candidate,
669, 742

The Late Dr. T. W. Marshall,
806

The Little Chapel at Monamullin,
213, 322

The Old Stone Jug,
638

The Two Prophets of Mormonism,
227

United States, The German Element in the,
372

Waits, A Ramble after the,
485

Wolf-Tower, The,
449

Working-men in France, Catholic Circles for,
529

Year of Our Lord 1877, The,
560

Footnotes
860

POETRY.

A Child-Beggar,
683

After Castel-Fidardo,
789

A Little Sermon,
713

A Mountain Friend,
21

At the Church-Door,
382

Between the Years,
433

Blessed Virgin, The,
731

Brother and Sister,
652

Ceadmon the Cow-Herd,
577

Faber, To F. W.,
305

In Retreat,
699

Order,
212

Outside St. Peter’s,
756

Smoke-Bound,
161

Sonnet,
405

The Bells,
88

The River’s Voice,
535

“There was no Room for Them in the Inn,”
668

To the Wood-Thrush,
250

Tota Pulchra,
355

Witch-Hazel, To the,
447

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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A Life of Pius IX. down to the Episcopal Jubilee,
135

Almanac, Catholic Family,
572

Almanac and Treasury of Facts for the year 1878,
860

Ancient History,
432

Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart,
144

Antar and Zara,
431

Bible of Humanity, The,
143

Bibliotheca Symbolica Ecclesiæ Universalis,
284

Blanche Carey,
140

Catacombs, A Visit to the Roman,
859

Catechism of Christian Doctrine,
137

Catholic Parents’ Friend, The,
144

Charles Sprague, Poetical and Prose Writings of,
143

Christianity, The Beginnings of,
425

De Deo Creante,
426

Eternal Years, The,
575

Evidences of Religion,
572

God the Teacher of Mankind,
137

Grammar-School Speller and Definer, The,
139

Human Eye, Is the, Changing its form under the Influences of Modern Education?
860

Iza,
575

Jack,
143

Knowledge of Mary,
715

Letters of Rev. James Maher, D.D.,
141

Life of Marie Lataste,
134

Life of Pope Pius IX., A Popular,
135

Lotos-Flowers,
573

Marie Lataste, The Life of,
134

Mary, The Knowledge of,
715

Materialism,
859

McGee’s Illustrated Weekly,
143

Mirror of True Womanhood,
719

Miscellanies,
281

Missa de Beata Maria,
139

Modern Philosophy,
428

Mongrelism,
142

Monotheism,
571

Morning Offices of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, and Good Friday,
858

Nicholas Minturn,
575

Records of a Quiet Life,
859

Recueil de Lectures,
288

Repertorium Oratoris Sacri,
574

Roman Catacombs, A Visit to the,
858

Sadlier’s Elementary History of the U.S.,
432

School Hygiene, Report upon,
136

Shakspeare’s Home,
719

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v

Specialists and Specialties in Medicine,
142

Standard Arithmetic. No. I.,
287

Standard Arithmetic. No. II.,
288

Sunday-School Teacher’s Manual,
575

Suppression of the Society of Jesus in the Portuguese Dominions, History of the,
429

Surly Tim,
574

The Beginnings of Christianity,
425

The Fall of Rora,
431

The Life of Pope Pius IX.,
135

Vesper Hymn-Book, The New,
573

What Catholics Do Not Believe,
719

THE

CATHOLIC WORLD.

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VOL. XXVI., No. 151.—OCTOBER, 1877.

THE OUTLOOK IN ITALY.

I.—WHAT IS THE MEANING OF RECENT EVENTS IN ITALY?

The revolutionary movement in Italy headed by Victor Emanuel has, step by step, trampled under foot every

principle of religion, morality, and justice that stood between it and its goal. No pretext of the welfare of a people, even
when based on truth, can ever make perfidy and treachery lawful, or furnish a covering of texture thick enough to hide
from intelligent and upright minds so long and black a list of misdeeds as the Piedmontese subjugation of Southern Italy
contains. “All iniquity of nations is execrable.” What is more, the catalogue of the crimes of this revolution is by no
means filled, and, what is worse, the future forebodes others which, in their enormity, will cast those of its beginning into
the shade. That the natural desire for unity among the Italian people might have been realized by proper and just means,
had the religious, intelligent, and influential classes exerted themselves as they were in duty bound to do, there is little
room for reasonable doubt. For it would be an unpleasant thing to admit that civilized society, after the action of
nineteen centuries of Christianity, could find no way to satisfy a legitimate aspiration, except by a process involving the
violation and subversion of those principles of justice, right, and religion for the maintenance and security of which
human society is organized and established. It is indeed strange to see the Latin races, which accepted so thoroughly
and for so long a period the true Christian faith, now everywhere subject to violent and revolutionary changes in their
political condition. How is this to be reconciled with the fact that Christianity, in response to the primitive instincts of
human nature, and in consonance with the laws which govern the whole universe, aims at, and actually brings about
when followed, the greatest happiness of man upon earth while securing his perfect bliss hereafter? For so runs the
promise of the divine Founder of Christianity: “A hundred-fold more in this life, and in the world to come life
everlasting.”

What has beguiled so large a number of the people of Italy, once so profoundly Catholic, that now they should take

up the false principles of revolution, should accept a pseudo-science, and unite with secret atheistical societies? How
has it come to pass that a people who poured out their blood as freely as water in testimony and defence of the
Catholic religion, whose history has given innumerable examples of the highest form of Christian heroism in ages past,
now follows willingly, or at least submits tamely, to the dictation of leaders who are animated with hatred to the
Catholic Church, and are bent on the extermination of the Christian faith, and with it of all religion?

Only those who can read in the seeds of time can tell whether such signs as these are to be interpreted as signifying

the beginning of the apostasy of the Latin races from Christianity and the disintegration and ruin of Latin nations, or
whether these events are to be looked upon as evidence of a latent capacity and a youthful but ill-regulated strength
pointing out a transition to a new and better order of things in the future.

Judging from the antecedents of the men placed in political power by recent elections in Italy, and their destructive

course of legislation, the former supposition, confining our thoughts to the immediate present, appears to be the more
likely. It is not, therefore, a matter of surprise that Catholics of an active faith and a deep sense of personal
responsibility feel uneasy at seeing things go from bad to worse in nations which they have been accustomed to look
upon as pre-eminently Catholic. Nor is it in human nature for men of energetic wills and sincere feelings of patriotism to
content themselves when they see the demagogues of liberty and the conspirators of atheistical secret societies coming
to the front and aiming at the destruction of all that makes a country dear to honest men. Nowhere does the Catholic
Church teach that the love of one’s country is antagonistic to the love of God; nor does the light of her faith allure to an
ignoble repose, or her spirit render her members slaves or cowards.

Serious-minded men, before going into action, are wont to examine anew their first principles, in order to find out

whether these be well grounded, clearly defined, and firm, and also whether there may not be some flaw in the
deductions which they have been accustomed to draw from them. An examination of this kind is a healthy and
invigorating exercise, and not to be feared when one has in his favor truth and honesty.

Copyright: Rev. I. T. Hecker. 1877.

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