Capitolo 95
same ecclesiastical caste, so it strongly united from the obligations of a
learned hierarchy, kingdoms as on a conquered country. It concerns the
I mediate class,--in the other words, the intelligent one and hard-working part of
the nation,--as an irreconcilable enemy. The prefects are orderly, not
to govern the provinces, but to hold them in order. The police is
kept, not to protect the citizens, but to look at them. The courts
has the other affairs to defend that those of the justice. The diplomat
body doesn't represent a country but a social circle. The body that instructs
it has the mission not to teach, but to prevent the expansion of
education. The taxes are not a national check but an officer
makes a raid for the profit of certain cleric. You examine all the
departments of the public administration: You will find everywhere the
cleric element in struggle with the nation, and clearly everywhere
victorious.
In this state of things it is inactive to tell the Pope, "Fills Your
principal offices with secular." You were able well as says to Austria,
"Puts Your fortitudes under the watch of the Piedmontese." The Roman
administration is that that has to be. What is will remain as from a lot
as there a Pope is on the throne.
Besides, even if the secular population sticks you complain him to be
systematically excluded by the power, the matters have reached such point,
what a honest man of the middle class would be thought dishonoured
accepting a tall place. You would say that he had abandoned the
nation to serve the enemy.
I CAPITULATE XIII.
POLITICAL GRAVITY.
You admits that the Popes have been extraordinary forever a senile
the indulgence and the goodness. I don't fake to deny the affirmations of M.
de Brosses and the de of M. Tournon that this government it immediately is the
milder, the worse one and the most absolute in Europe.
And still Sixtus V., a great Pope, was still a the greatest executioner. That
men of God delivered above a Pepoli in Bologna that had to the pitchfork
it gave on him a kick instead of a piece of bread when he was a