Democracy and Liberty, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Democracy and Liberty, Vol. 2I have been told on excellent authority, that Ma caulay once expressed in more decorous language a very similar View. I do not mean to take the white sheet, ' he is reported to have said, for I acted honestly and conscientiously, but I now see that all we did for the Catholics has turned out badly.' The belief that pro testant and Catholic would become almost indistin guishable in the field of politics, and that the associa tion of disafiection with Catholicism was purely casual and ephemeral, has proved ludicrouslyofalse, and in Ireland, as on the Continent, the question Of priestly in¿uence in politics is one of the most pressing of our time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.