Speculum justitiæ,
Sedes sapientiæ,
Rosa mystica,
Turris Davidica,
Turris eburnea,
Domus aura,
Federis arca,
Janua cœli,
Stilla matutino,
Salus infirmorum
Refugium peccatorum,
Auxilium Christianorum,
Regina angleorum,
Regina sanctorum omnium, and so on.
This little bit of early education may be taken as typical of the whole instructional system of the Romish church.
I was witness this afternoon to another scene which belongs to this system. As I was resting in my quiet room, after a visit to Maria Sopra Minerva, where—in parenthesis, be it said—I heard an excellent sermon by a Carmelite monk, on the rights of intelligence and its place in human life, when I was aroused by the sound of a strong voice, which seemed to be preaching and exhorting fervently. I rose, threw a shawl over my head and went out; the moonlight was splendid, and it and the powerful voice of the preacher, drew me to the foot of the Tarpeian rock. Here I found a concourse of country-people assembled in an open space, mostly men, about two hundred in number, whose heads never seemed to have come in contact with a comb, and this crowd, from which proceeded an offensive odor, stood listening to a monk who with the voice of Stentor, exclaimed, that
