Excerpt from Watson's Magazine, Vol. 17: September, 1913 Thus, the record shows that it was nearly 200 years after the Christian church was founded, before the bishops of Rome began to elevate their own heads above the heads of neighboring bishops. And it is perfectly apparent that it was the removal of the Roman Emperor to Constantinople that gave the bishop of Rome his temptation and his opportunity. 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.