In this capacity he must have a Court, or something approaching to it.

He selects his courtiers among men of his own faith, his own opinions, and his own profession: nothing can be more reasonable.

These courtiers, in their turn, dispose of the different offices of state, spiritual or temporal, just as it may happen.

Nor can the Sovereign object to this pretension as being ridiculous.

Moreover he naturally hopes to be more faithfully served by priests than laymen; while he feels that the salaries attached to the best-paid places are necessary to the splendour of his Court.
Thence it follows that to preach the secularization of the government to the Pope, is to preach to the winds.