Their education is at a very low stage.

One portion of the men go into the military, another into the priesthood, and the rest into the shoe-making business.
They keep up the passport system here, but so they do in Turkey.

This shows that the Papal States are as far advanced as Turkey.

This fact will be alone sufficient to silence the tongues of malignant calumniators.

I had to get my passport vised for Rome in Florence, and then they would not let me come ashore here until a policeman had examined it on the wharf and sent me a permit.