Excerpt from The History of the Popes, Their Church and State, and Especially of Their Conflicts With Protestantism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 of 3 And if it be desirable that no dweller in our land should embrace Catholicism, are we not deeply indebted to the author who has laid open to us the means by which its tenets are most successfully insinuated among a people? And the rather, because such means are believed to be at this moment in vigorous action among ourselves. 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.