Excerpt from The Popes of Rome, Vol. 1 of 2: Their Ecclesiastical and Political History During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Unfortunately, however, such is the tendency to post pone the real and permanent interest which all men have in truth and charity, and the most sacred rights of indivi duals, to the pursuit of some momentary and illusory party advantage, that the French translation is not only full of particular inaccuracies arising from ignorance or careless ness, but is infected with the sectarian spirit from which the original is so remarkably and so laudably exempt. 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.