Excerpt from Purcell's "Manning" Refuted: Life of Cardinal Manning With a Critical Examination of E. S. Purcell's Mistakes Assuredly, in paying a homage that I wanted to make as striking as possible to one of the men who, having gone out from the pale of Protestantism, have contributed most to the restoration of Catholicism as a spiritual power and to the triumph of the doctrines called Ultramontane, I was not ignorant either of what I was doing or of what I ought to expect. Nothing could appear more natural to me, more legitimate even, than the surprise or even irritation of certain minds. I had foreseen certain objections, nay, even certain pro tests in the name of the principles of the Reformation. 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.