Note 293 — Front matter (continued 10)
Reading edition
We should be curious to know if the writer would now comment on these terms so doubtfully. Further study would probably have given greater decision. The meaning of the obedience of princes and nations was as distinct as possible from that of the obedience of private persons, whether Catholics or heretics. The Church is all through the movement proceeding, as mother of civil humanity, to secure the obedience of rulers and States.