Note 144 — CATHOLIC WORLD. (continued 3)

“This association has never proposed to itself the position and duties of such a great popular organization as must eventually take up and carry out to the victorious end the national question. It has rather proposed to itself the less ambitious though not less arduous task of preparing the ground for such a comprehensive organization.”—First Report of the Irish Home Government Association. Dublin: Falconer, Upper Sackville Street. 1871.