Excerpt from Brownson's Quarterly Review, 1860, Vol. 1 Of course, no man who respects himself, or the public, will attempt a detailed reply to the numerous misconcep tions, misrepresentations, misstatements, and false inferences of this popular anti-catholic and know-nothing publica tion. Its facts are no facts, and its startling disclo sures are hardly so much as ingenious fictions. It falsifies even the facts it cites, and misrepresents and perverts the meaning of Catholic writers, even when it quotes, as it sel dom does, their words correctly, by separating them from their connection, and interpreting or applying them in ac cordance with a preconceived theory which has no founds tion in fact, and which no Catholic does or could entertain for a moment. It misapprehends and misapplies every thing it encounters in Catholic books, Catholic history, Catholic doctrine, or Catholic practice. The extracts are garbled, and words are wrested to favor a meaning obvi ously incompatible with the whole scope and design of him who uses them. Its author starts with the foregone con elusion, that our religion is an imposture, that the Church is mystical Babylon, the Mystery of Iniquity, and the Sovereign Pontifi the Man of Sin, the veritable anti-christ foretoldb by the Apostles, and then looks through Catholic history to find, not passages which, honestly interpreted, do sustain, but which may be made to appear to sustain that foregone conclusion. He constructs his theory from his passions and prejudices, his ignorance and weakness, and then seeks for facts to support it; he fixes his conclusion, and then seeks or manufactures premises that will war rant it. This is the case with all the popular N o-popery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.