Capitolo 10
Since then the spiritual one and the storms they have been joined, as two
Siamese powers, the more August of the two has necessarily lost his
independence. Every day, or almost this way, the Supreme discoveries of Pontiff
he called above for choosing among the general affairs of the
Church and the affairs deprived of his/her crown. You think her he is
sufficiently alienated by the things of this world to sacrifice
heroically the earth that is near to the Sky that is remote?
Besides, we have history to help us. I was able, if I chose, checks to
some bad Popes that were able of sale the dogma of the Saint
Trinity for mean-a-dozen unites in league of territory; but it would not be really
equitable to dispute from the bad Popes to the confusion of one indifferent.
However you think her, that when the Pope legalized the perjury of
Francis the first one after the essay in Madrid, he did him/it to do the
the morality of the Saint Sees respected, or to mix on an useful war to his
crown?
When he organized the traffic in indulgences, and it threw one-mean of
Europe in heresy, was it to increase the number of Cristiano, or to
does give a dowry to a young lady?
When, during him the Thirty year-old War, he made an alliance with the
Protestants of Sweden, were it to feel the indifference of the
Church, or to humiliate the House of Austria?
When he excommunicated Venice in 1806, it was it to tie the Republic
more firmly in the Church, or to serve the rancour of Spain against
the first allies of Henry IV.?
When he suppressed the order of the Jesuits, was it to strengthen the
army of the Church, or to arrange his/her master in France?
When he finished his/her relationships with the Spanish American provinces
to the theirs I proclaim their independence, it was it in the interest of
the Church, or of Spain?
When he contained the excommunication it suspended on the heads of such Romans
as it brought their lotteries money foreigners, it was it to tie them
hearts in the Church, or to draw their crown-pieces in his really