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The Roman Question

CHAPTER XV
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If one of their tribe cultivates another man's field, it is by smuggling himself into the occupation under a borrowed name; as though the sweat of a Jew dishonoured the earth.

Manufactures are forbidden them, as of old; not being of the nation, they might injure the national industry.

To conclude, I have observed them myself as they stood on the thresholds of their miserable shops, and I can assure you they do not resemble a people freed from oppression.

The seal of pontifical reprobation is not removed from their foreheads.

If, as history pretends, they had been liberated for the last twelve years, some sign of freedom would be perceptible on their countenances.
I am willing to admit that, at the commencement of his reign, Pius IX.
experienced a generous impulse.


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