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There is, however, another omission, or rather collection of omissions, which is more complete, and far more important, in all respects; and upon this it is my purpose to trespass at much greater length upon my reader's patience than I should otherwise feel justified in doing. It is — the omission, for the first time after about two centuries, of the proscribed names of Galileo Galilei, of Copernicus, and of Foscarini. The pontifical sponge has been applied to the triple blot which remained for so long a period on the pages of Rome's damnatory Index; and her sons are now, for the first time, free to think and write what all the world has long
Church — all of them interested — are without number. But I should like the reader just to recollect the withdrawment of the last article of the Creed and Oath of Pius IV., which binds the professor and taker by the most solemn obligation to do all in his power for the advancement of his exclusively salvific cburch. The act of knavery was perpetrated, perhaps first, and in this country, where it was needed, or was politically necessary, by Dr. Challoner, a vicar apostolic, and with such delusive success, that C. Butler, Esq., a learned counsellor, was carried away with the device, and brought to the humiliation of confessing himself ignorant of the Creed of his own Church. The omitted and final clause of that Creed renders practicable proselytism to Popery, by whatever means, not only allowable but imperative upon all who profess it; and those are — all who have cure of souls, together with those who have charge of education, and others. See Butler's Vindication, pp. xxvii.xxix.; and B. White's Letter, pp. xvi.-xxxi.
