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other books, by the Sacred Congregation, in a decree of August 13, in the following words: — Dialogo di Galileo Galilei dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo, Tolemaico, e Copernicano. In the Roman Index of 1704, we read the general condemnation: — Libri omnes docentes mobilitatem Terræ et immobilitatem Solis. Not a vestige of any of these decisive proscriptions is now to be found in any Roman Index. The name of the persecuted and condemned reviver of a doctrine now universally received, with that of his Dialogo, kept their place the last, and were only silently and furtively withdrawn in the year 1835. In all the preceding Indexes the condemnation, not of the man only, but of the Doctrine, stands an imperishable monument of the ignorance, bigotry, and intolerance of the Roman Church.
But the reader was to expect associates in this disgraceful procedure of the mother and mistress of all churches. They were named; and we will notice Copernicus, the founder of the obnoxious doctrine first. His book, De Mundi Revolutionibus, was formally and singly condemned by a Decree of the Sacred Congre-
