New-York tribune., 1874-12-04

wears the city had been ruled by the Popes' but
they never made any vigorous effort for it's matcria'
or its moral Improvement. Things steadily went Oh
from bad TO worse until at the epoch of the Reform
alton no pous stranger could visit the city Wl'hou'
| being shocked.
Tho papacy had repudiated science rs inconsistent
with its prcensions but in later years II had gwen
| announcement to art Music and painting, how
| ever remarks Dr. Draper, possess no living iolce
| that can develop weak nation INTO
strong one or secure the material being or nap
| piness of communities Hence at the 'lhe Vi tuo
! Reformation to one who thoughtiully considered
her condition Rome had lost all living energy enc
was no longer the arbiter of the physical or the re-
| Ecious progress of the world For the progressive
maxims of the republic and the empire she had sub
stitutcd the stationary maxims of the papacy. she
bad the appearance Of piety and the possession OF
art In this she reScmblcd one of those iriar-corses
which we still see in their brown cOwls in the vaults
of the Cappuccini, with brevlary OF some W''"'iou
| flowers in its hands"
The influence of Rome on the condition of Europe
is forcby illustrated by the stationary character OF
the population. Forms of government have l'''e
power in this respect but policy may control 1t com
pletely Some of the causes which kept back the
population of Europe under the papal sway ior more
| than thousand years arc thus set forth;
The surface of the Continent was for the most part
| pathless forests; here ana ~ N,9
| dotted with monasteres and towns. In tho lowands
and along the rivercourses were lens suIictnnvs
miasms and spreading agucs far and wide In
Paris and London, the houses were OF wool uluottu
! They had no windows and, until the invention
| Of the saw-mil, very few had wooden floors
straw scattered in the room, supplied it place Ihere
were Chimneys; tho smoke OF the lFled che'IlGss
taions mere was scarcely any protection from the
weather. No attempt was made at drhnage ouu i ,io
| rha rubbish
ont OF door. Men. women. and children slept 10 ~
the apartment; not unfrequrnty, uohes'lc ! III
mails we're tcr mpauions such confusion OF the
family. 1t impossible that modesty or moIay co"'u
| be maintained. Tho bed was usually bag OF sraN.a
wooden log served a pillow. Personal cleanliness
was utterly unknown; great OH ers OF S'ale, even
diguitaries so high as the Archbishop OF Ctn!eibuy
swarmed with vermin; such, ii is related, was me CON
ditiOn OF Thomas Beckett, the antaGonst OF an EnSnsh
necessarIlv and proiusely used The citizen clothed
himself in leather garment which, win us ever M
mulatlng lmpurlty, might last iOr many years e M
was considered to be in circumstances of ease II he
The streets mad no sewers; they were without pave
| ment or lamps After mghtIal, the chamocrShutIcrS
were throw open and slops uncerrmonously enptied
down. TO the discontinue OF Le "aNidler trtC%nr is
path through the narrow streets VITA s dsa lantern
E:neas sy lyius who afterwarl became Pope Plus H.
and therefore very competent and impartial
made to the British Islands, about 1880. lie describes
the OF the peasantry constructed Of stones
stincneI bulls-hde served for door. The food CON
sisted Of vegetable products, such as AS and
b''No' ''N'
Hins Of reeds pIastered with mud houses OF wattled
stakes chimneyless peat-fres from winch there was
scarcely escape for the smoke, Gens OF physcd ana
moral pollution swarmng with yerinln, WIsps OF stIa"
twisted the limbs to keep off the cod the agne-
stricken peasant WIN DO heip eMcelt Shrne,cle Ho"
Such was the condition of the pcasantry, and of
the common people in the cities. Not much better
was that c, the mobiles. The baronial castles were
dens of robbers The chiefs, devoted to gluttony
i Nsi oil chr but
the service was hastily read by n priest in their
bedchambers before they rose. The poor were
prey to the more powerful. Their little property
was seized; their bodies were dragged away to dis
tant countries; their maidens were thrown into
brothel or sold as slaves. All over Europe, the
lucrative political offices were filed by ccccsastics
! The abbots We'd with the courts in their EcIds Of
| slaves At the same time. mendcaut friarS swarmed
| in every portion of society. There was vast body
of nOn-produceTs who lived on the toll OF the labor
crs. Outside of the monastcrics, there was 10
attempt at intellectual culture. The influence of
the Church in respect to the lai;y, in the oppo
! site direction, for the maxim universally re-
ceiycd that IGNORANCE was the mother of devotion"
The conclusion of the chapter the ecclesiastical
! domination of Rome presents the subject in q strik
| ing light:
In ,nis Investigation II the influence CJtAoiclsm.
people and what it did for ITSELF When we think of
| The stately monastery an cmbCimehl of aNurv, with
its cO,eymOwn lawns, its gardens, and bowers it, ioun-
ians aud many muTnuung streams We must connect it
not with aguestrcken peasant dying without help
the fens, but with the abbot his ambnS pafrey.
his hawk and hounds his wel-stocked cellar ana aruer
He is part of system mat mas ts Geue Ear o i hnndSf
are ali his When we survey as stl We may, tne
magnificent churches and cathedras or thosc umeS,
MIRACLES OF architectural sklthe only real miracles
i noicisn-when in Imagination we restore tiio
trapscendenty imposing the noble services Ci Wneh
were the scene, the din, religions ngn' If
in through the many-cclored Windows lhe sot~,-Io ~
voices not IN their me bdy 10 tn9Se Vi h
the priests in their sacred vestmeuts' au" aoo' " VIZ
prosrate worShipers listening TO taues ana prayef5lH
foreign ana unknown tongue s9a M we mot rs ask our
the glory Of the great the oyeIsAado"ini authority
Bnt perhaps some one nav say. Are there not limits
/ 10 human CXcrlOn-tlings which 10 poIuCi sSatem,
can acc lmpahl Men cannot be raised lQl ,ai.s.n,
| a continent caGnot be ciyIuz - - d dty.
The cannon" roWcr IS not. however 70 be tr!ei by
iects a human or1n. II claims 70 DC accredited super,
| naturally The sovereign pOntR Is the vicar OF God
npon earth. Infallibe judgment, IL is given to him
TO accomplish all things by mrac.eIi need be- lie ha1
Furopr for moro than thousand ana thonSh on
SOM occasions uad encountered ;Ae Iosi,dnces OF
little moment. that the pAys al the pnilca! power OF
the cOnuucIt be affirmed 10 nave been at his dis
sucn facts "a have been presented in this chapter
doubtless well weighed by tlr Fioiestaht k;orn'
r OF the sxtccntl century and brought them 10 the
conclusion that Catholicism had altosether dled IN IT'S
mission that II had become vast sJ stem OF deuSon ana
inpOstule aud thava restoration OF true Christianity
could only be accomplished by returning u te latin
and practices OF the primitive times. IniS was 10 de-
clsIOn suddenly arrived it had long been the opinion
OF many religious and learned men. The plou Ffatlce
in the dGe ages had loudly expressed then belief that
the fatal g1ft Of Roman emperor had been the doom
OF religion. 1t wanted nothing more tah INC voice
OF Luther bring men throughout the norm OF Europe
to the determination that tLo worship OF lDe virgin
Mary. the invocation OF SAINTS, the WORKING OF mIaelGs
OF the SICK the purchase OF lndnlS
preparation OF SIM and all other evil prac
tees lucrative their aOettOrs, which had been last
ened GA Christianity. bat which were 10 part of It,
should come TO an end. Catholicism. as system for
DromOtiug the well-beiug Of man. had plainly failed in
| ifs Orll1n: pertOfmanCn IId