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Excerpt from A Primer of the History of the Holy Catholic Church in Ireland, Vol. 1: From the Introduction of Christianity to the Formation of the Modern Irish Branch of the Church of Rome The Papacy, says he, maintains its ascendancy by artful system 0 accommodation to the natural princi Ice and motives of man. Of these, it has chiefly taken to its ai in Ire land that national spirit and pride of ancestry by which the lower classes of our countrymen are so amiably, yet so dangerously dis tiaguished. The Irish are a fondl national people they know li e of their ancestors, but they b eve of them everything which enters into their conceptions of worth and greatness; and they feel a h although mournful consolation, in turning from their own con °tion to the supposed freedom and glory and hap iness of other times. These principles have been incorporate into their creed - they receive their religion as the last bequest the last token, of their almost canonised forefathers, and they cling to it with a devoted and desperate fidelity. 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.