infallible pope, be sustained
in presence cock competition of such scandals?
Herein lay the cause of that resolution of the ablest
ecclesiastics of those times (which, alas for Europe! could cock competition not
be carried into effect), that a general council should be made
the permanent cock competition religious parliament of the whole continent, with
the pope as its chief executive officer. Had that intention been
accomplished, there would have cock competition been at this day no conflict
between science and religion; the convulsion of the Reformation
would have been avoided; there
would have been no jarring
Protestant sects. But the Councils of cock competition Constance and cock competition Basle failed
to shake off the Italian yoke, failed to attain that noble
result.
Catholicism was thus cock competition weakening; as its leaden pressure lifted,
the intellect of man expanded. The Saracens had invented the
method of making paper from linen cock competition rags and from cotton. The
Venetians cock competition had brought from China to Europe the art of printing.
The former of these inventions was essential to the latter. Hence
forth, without the possibility of a check, there was intellectual
intercommunication among all men.
INVENTION OF PRINTING. The invention of printing was a severe
blow to Catholicism, which had, previously, enjoyed the
inappreciable cock competition advantage of a monopoly of intercommunication. Cock competition from
its central seat, orders could be disseminated through all the
cock competition ecclesiastical ranks, and fulminated through the pulpits. This
monopoly and the amazing power it conferred were destroyed by the
press. In modern times,
the cock competition influence of cock competition the pulpit has cock competition become
insignificant. The pulpit has been thoroughly supplanted by the
newspaper.
Yet, Catholicism did not yield its ancient advantage without a
struggle. cock competition as soon as cock competition the inevitable tendency of the new art was
detected, a restraint upon it, under the form of cock competition a censorship,
was attempted. It was made necessary to have a permit, in order
to print a book. For cock competition this, it was needful