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will not abandon an inch of ground which we have a benefit in defending and a right to hold.'[1]

The work of M. Léon Godard will go a long way to relieve the fears and to rectify the misconceptions of certain politicians and political writers in France. It will show that neither the Council nor the Syllabus, interpreted, not by any individual, but by the Holy See, need cause the fears—I would venture to use a familiar word, and say the scare—which in some quarters appear now to exist.

  1. Les Principes de '89, et la Doctrine Catholique, par l'Abbé Léon Godard. Lecoffre, Paris, 1863.