The Roman Question

Edmond About

Capitolo 5

and the judgments of the lowest courts;  to order subdeacons and
arrests;  to send souls of division and the errands of captains;  that
this confusion of the spiritual one and the storm it disseminates among
the tallest offices a crowd of men, excellent without doubt in the sight
of God but insupportable in that of the people;  often the extraneous one to
the country, sometimes to business and always to those national ties
what the base of every society I am;  without any special knowledge,
unless it is of the things of another world;  without children that
it makes them indifferent to the future of the nation;  without wives,
what it makes them dangerous to his/her present;  and to conclude,
not prepared to feel reason, because they believes him
participators in the pontifical infallibility.

What these servants of a more merciful but sometimes severe God,
simultaneously abuses mercy and the justice;  what, full of the indulgence
for the indifferent one, for their friends and for them, they treats,
with rigor extreme whoever has had the adversity to become disgusting
to motorize;  what they forgives more quickly the wretch that cuts a man
you strangle, that the unwise citizen that blames an abuse.

What the Pope and the Priests that assist him, have been taught not
accounts, administer badly rawly the public finances;  what while
it is probable that maladministration or the embezzlement of the public finances has
born state one hundred years ago, when the expenses of public
adoration and some papal court was sustained the expenses of within one hundred and
thirty-nine millionses of Catholics, it is widely a different bargain
now, when they had to have sustained from 3,124,668 individuals.

What they doesn't complain him to pay taxes, because it is universally a
established practice, but that they desires to see their money spent on
terrestrial objects;  what a the sight of basilicas, churches and
convents built or they maintained to their expense, it cheers them as
Catholics, but if it grieves them as citizens, because, later everything, these
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