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Excerpt from The Vatican and the War; A Retrospect and Forecast: Being a Review of the Past Attitude of the Vatican Towards Civil and Religious Government, and an Analysis of Her Latest Utterance Upon These Matters as Related to the European War
Men asked themselves: Is this the 'baptizing where withal the twentieth century is to be baptized? All the hopes which had been SO fondly builded upon the peace societies, the Hague Tribunal, arbitration treaties, upon the religion, culture, and civilization Of a refined and enlightened age, had been stricken to the dust, and the Old World, in less time than it takes to tell it. 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.
