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Lord of the World

PROLOGUE
19/29

It has therefore a real food of a sort to offer to religious cravings; it idealises, and yet it makes no demand upon the spiritual faculties.

Then, they have the use of all the churches except ours, and all the Cathedrals; and they are beginning at last to encourage sentiment.

Then, they may display their symbols and we may not: I think that they will be established legally in another ten years at the latest.
"Now, we Catholics, remember, are losing; we have lost steadily for more than fifty years.

I suppose that we have, nominally, about one-fortieth of America now--and that is the result of the Catholic movement of the early twenties.

In France and Spain we are nowhere; in Germany we are less.


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