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Excerpt from The Spirit of the Papacy
Sec. 2. The Catholic - The Papacy has played a large part in the history of the world, and is now a great political and religious power. As the accepted leader of the largest and most compact of the three main branches of the Christian church, and of a considerable part of the popala tion in each of the most enlightened nations, it should be studied by every intelligent person. By manv it is misunderstood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
