What then, did this elegant scholar and
accomplished gentleman write, which faith
ful Catholics must not read?
Why, it is His “Travels in Italy”, wherein
he describes what he saw with his own eyes,
of the ruinous consequences of the Papal sys*
tern in full control of church and state.
EDWARD GIBBON is a third of the
Pope’s very black sheep.
Protestant moss-backs and cramp-heads do
not like Edward, very much-; and there are
several of his chapters which —as the old lady
Said about certain verses in “Paul’s Romans”
—draw from the orthodox clergyman the
grunt, I wish he hadn’t 'writ it.”
But still, the Protestants make no effort to
prevent people from reading Gibbon’s im
mortal history of the “Decline and Fall of
Rome.”
We are willing to trust our folks to read
at will, freely, independently, in all direc
tions.
Rome however, is at heart so cowardly,
so conscious of her vast imposture, and so
nervously aware of the fatal spirit of inde
pendent research — fatal to her! that she even
bans the most illustrious historian of mod
ern times!
For the same reason that Goldsmith's his
tory was made a part of the forbidden fruit,
Hallam’s “Constitutional History of Eng
land" is denied to faithful Catholics.
Hallam! One of the most thorough, con
scientious and conservative authors that ever
won renown with the pen!
But his treasure-house is locked to Cath
olics because he told the truth about Rome's
record in England.
