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holiness's Council at the time, did not suggest the adoption of the whole of Sir R. H. Inglis's advice, and erase from the damnatory columns of the Index, not only Galileo, with his work and his doctrine, but the name and principal work of the most celebrated father of British science and philosophy; and no longer suffer, as in the last Index is the fact, the disgraceful article to stand — Baconus (Franciscus) De Verulamio. De dignitate, & augmentis Scientiarum. Donec corrigatur. Decr. 3 Aprilis 1669. Perhaps, it was an oversight.
We now proceed with the Gregorian Index. A Mandate and a Monitum have been announced; and they are both rather remarkable. The Mandate is that of the pontiff, Leo XII., in 1825; and he there rouses the principal rulers of the Roman Church to use their authority in wresting from the hands of the faithful every thing in literature which that Church deems noxious and deadly; — evellere e manibus quod noxium ac mortiferum. In the Monitum, the Sacred Congregation reminds the same rulers, specifying them according to their respective rank as before, of the obligation of the Second Rule of the Tridentine Index, concerning heretical books, and the universal condemnation by
