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Excerpt from Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 of 4: Medieval Period Religious minds are at no loss to see that spiritual interests of vital movement are involved in the differences between pre testant and papist. Mere men of the world, who look a little below the surface, know that civil affairs in Europe largely turned, for ages, upon the ascendancy of papal Rome, or upon temporary abatements of her influence. Nor even still are her powers gone for acting importantly upon society. To under stand the real nature of her position, and of the systems that have risen on her abasement, a competent knowledge of medieval ecclesiastical history is indispensable. 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.