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f&trejusqu' au jour de jugement , pour trois critnes qui 1 ' auraient plongc dans le feu eternel de l ' enfer si la sainte Vierge , Jt qui il avait dedie un monastere , n ' avait flechi ] a colcre divine . II est permis de douterde la vision ; mais dit Fleury , ce recit prouve que les personrtes de la plus haute vertu etaient persuadees que ce pape avait commis d ' enorrnes peches . Quels sont les trois dcmt parlait saint Lutgarde ? II serait extr 6 mement difficile de les choisir dans la vie d'lnnocent . "
The French critics conclude their review of " this Historical Essay , * ' in the following significative language . " In his historical observations /' say they , " as well as in his nar-Tative , the author displays the greatest caution ja . n < l discretion . Forty years ago , perhaps , when pliilosophical books produced per sey some effect tkpon a reading
public , this kind of circumspection , otherwise so laudable , might hftve s&vuured of timidity , but it is a judicious maxim , that of conforming to the spirit of the times . If the great object be attained ,
the writer may vary his tone , according to the conjuncture in which he writes . Delicate eyes can bear only a half light . As for the literary execution of this w ork , it is uniformly excellent , ^ he plan is exceedingly good ;
the topics are well arranged , and elected with much judgment ; the style throughout is correct , elegant » nd concise . This Essay , when improved by the hand of the author , must assert and maintain a v distinguished rank among our best histories .
Works written in this spirit * o ~ operate with the views of a
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governmentj no less enlightened than it is successful and firm . The hopes of the enemies of reason are now at an end . It is in vain that periodical and other writers preach up to us the prejudices of the thirteenth century . They are hypocrites who flatter the
passions of a certain party , with a view to serve their private interests . Religious intolerance is no more * The lustre of the Roman purple has faded away . If the triple tiara should one day lift itself up , at least no crowned head will ever , be
hereafter , be seen ^ pent fore it . Monachism is nearly abolished . All the institutions of the mid * die ages are falling one after another ; notwithstanding some casual obstacles , the hunian mind is advancing in its course ; we may add , that its progress is accelerated as it is aided and seconded by
forces Those plans , which the genius of letters dared only to suggest in the " age of philosophy , are now adopted ^ executed and extended by the genius of victory **'
The meaning of the phrases whieh we have here quoted , fend which were undoubtedly written under the auspices of the French government , is too obvious to be mistaken . Nothing can be more virulent than the attack , which
the author , who is here extolled for his circumspection ^ has made upon all the most sacred institutions , and the favourite tenets of the Catholic Relig ion . He shows them no meicy whatever . Th © reviewers must then understand
by the discretion which they commend in him , his having abstained from abusing Christianity in general * His exposition of the supposed deformity of the Catholic Religiou i » \ he " hal f light "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/9/
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