I think it will pass," he said, "if a man can be found to push it.

All this last century has been leading up to it, as you see.
Patriotism has been dying fast; but it ought to have died, like slavery and so forth, under the influence of the Catholic Church.

As it is, the work has been done without the Church; and the result is that the world is beginning to range itself against us: it is an organised antagonism-- a kind of Catholic anti-Church.

Democracy has done what the Divine Monarchy should have done.

If the proposal passes I think we may expect something like persecution once more....