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Excerpt from Brownson's Quarterly Review, 1849, Vol. 3 The salvation of the American re ublic depends on Catho licity. The principles adopted by Protestants and infidels, if logically developed, can give us nothing but the most ultra So cinlism; yet Catholics, at least many of them, the moment they come out of the sphere of what is immediately of faith, unwittingly adopt these very principles, and sustain in liter ature and politics premises which, in their legitimate con sequences, are hostile, not only to the Church, but to social order and to all natural morality. They mean nothing of all this; they love their religion, and would not knowingly do or say ought inconsistent with it but in preportion as they take part in the political world, they catch the spirit of the age, and that spirit is Socialistic, against which the Holy Father, Pius the Ninth, in his noble Encyclical, has solemnly warned us. What portion of the American population has outdone the nominally Catholic opulation of our cities, in their enthusiastic admiration of the ate infidel and Socialistic revolutions in Europe And does not all this prove that the bulk of our Catholic population do not understand the relations of their religion to the great questions of the day, that they do not understand their religion in its application to politics and social reforms, and, therefore, in these matters, borrow their notions from the world, which seeks, first of all, to crush the Church Catholicity can save our republic only by being practised in public as well as in private life, only by prescribing our public as well as private morals. 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.