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[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Fields . ] Digest of the Maynooth Commission Report . By James Loed , Esq . Protestant Association Office , and Seeleys , London . —If any person , ecclesiastical or civil , Jew , Turk , infidel , or heretic , wishes to
disabuse his mind of the figment , which is below even the stultified ignorance of the House of Commons , that the teaching at Maynooth is individually moral , nationally patriotic , or socially beneficial , a few pages of this work will settle the doubts of the most prejudiced and obtuse . Common sense , that quality which now so languishes in England as to be afflicted with a general marasmus , might indeed
have prompted the suspicion in any other less infatuated assembly than the House of Commons , that the study of Dens' nastiness , " Do Matrimonio , " and the filthy commentary of Saint (!!!) Liguori upon the Seventh Commandment , by bachelor priestlings of eighteen or twenty-two , with their subsequent elaboration of such obscenities in the confessional , would not necessarily produce such virtuous
elements and effects in the wives and daughters of Great Britain as to be worth supporting , in the lectures at Maynooth . Where , however , common sense has failed , together with history , purity of thought , and every other active incentive of moral intelligence , in opening the eyes of our Ascot young senators and legislative
"habitues of the virtuous ballet , " we hope this "Digest" may prove efficient , and disclose the pitfalls of depravity , confessed by the very lips of those who involve themselves and other frail specimens of fallen humanity in a common entanglement and trap , speciously concealed with the withered branches of a spurious religion .
The author has done his work well , acting rather as a judge in presenting the evidence of each side for the decision of the British jurypublic , than as a partizan or sectarian , personal or political . The difficulty , as in all such cases , was condensation ; this has been ably effected , and the reader may now possess himself ( as lie should , if he values the souls of his fellow-countrymen and the welfare of the state ) of a complete manual of information as to how elections are swayed
by priestcraft ; the true operation of Popery in the curtailment of popular liberty of opinion ; the corrupting and bigoted effects of the Maynooth class-books ; the debaucheries of the confessional , and the stores of vicious ideas amassed by previous study and preparation before the young priest enters upon the career of examining the inmost thoughts of women in those disorderly houses called convents ; the anti-social and disloyal principles of Popery ; the spirit of perse-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Reviews Of New Books.
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS , r
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Fields . ] Digest of the Maynooth Commission Report . By James Loed , Esq . Protestant Association Office , and Seeleys , London . —If any person , ecclesiastical or civil , Jew , Turk , infidel , or heretic , wishes to
disabuse his mind of the figment , which is below even the stultified ignorance of the House of Commons , that the teaching at Maynooth is individually moral , nationally patriotic , or socially beneficial , a few pages of this work will settle the doubts of the most prejudiced and obtuse . Common sense , that quality which now so languishes in England as to be afflicted with a general marasmus , might indeed
have prompted the suspicion in any other less infatuated assembly than the House of Commons , that the study of Dens' nastiness , " Do Matrimonio , " and the filthy commentary of Saint (!!!) Liguori upon the Seventh Commandment , by bachelor priestlings of eighteen or twenty-two , with their subsequent elaboration of such obscenities in the confessional , would not necessarily produce such virtuous
elements and effects in the wives and daughters of Great Britain as to be worth supporting , in the lectures at Maynooth . Where , however , common sense has failed , together with history , purity of thought , and every other active incentive of moral intelligence , in opening the eyes of our Ascot young senators and legislative
"habitues of the virtuous ballet , " we hope this "Digest" may prove efficient , and disclose the pitfalls of depravity , confessed by the very lips of those who involve themselves and other frail specimens of fallen humanity in a common entanglement and trap , speciously concealed with the withered branches of a spurious religion .
The author has done his work well , acting rather as a judge in presenting the evidence of each side for the decision of the British jurypublic , than as a partizan or sectarian , personal or political . The difficulty , as in all such cases , was condensation ; this has been ably effected , and the reader may now possess himself ( as lie should , if he values the souls of his fellow-countrymen and the welfare of the state ) of a complete manual of information as to how elections are swayed
by priestcraft ; the true operation of Popery in the curtailment of popular liberty of opinion ; the corrupting and bigoted effects of the Maynooth class-books ; the debaucheries of the confessional , and the stores of vicious ideas amassed by previous study and preparation before the young priest enters upon the career of examining the inmost thoughts of women in those disorderly houses called convents ; the anti-social and disloyal principles of Popery ; the spirit of perse-