Excerpt from The Pontifical Decrees Against the Motion of the Earth: Considered in Their Bearing on the Theory of Advanced Ultramontanism Rome in the 17th century stigmatising as false and anti scriptural opinions she has since learnt from the Englishman Newton to recognise as true and sound, certainly seems to give the lie direct to a theory that can be expressed as follows 'rorne, let it never be forgotten, is commissioned to teach England and Germany; not England or Germany to teach Rome. So far as any Englishmen or Germans are at variance with what is authoritatively inculcated in Rome, they are in fallibly in But we have been told that the con tradiction is only in appearance; that the decision referred to was not a mistake on a matter of doctrine or of principle; that it was not uttered by the Pope ex cathedra, but by Cardinals, for whom no one claims infallibility; that it was a mere dis ciplinary enactment very necessary for its times; that it afforded true doctrinal guidance to contemporary Catholics, and was, in fact, the one legitimate application of Catholic principle to the circumstances with which it dealt.'1' In the following pages I will endeavour to vindicate the relevancy of the objection, and show that all such answers as those just mentioned ignore the true history of the case. 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.