You cut away the last two roots by which a liberal sentiment still vegetated in orthodox Catholicism.

You throw the clergy back on Rome; you attach them to the Pope from whom you wish to separate them, and deprive them of the national character which you wish to impose on them.

They were French, and you render them Ultramontane.[2268] They excited ill-will and envy, and you render them sympathetic and popular.

They were a divided body, and you give them unanimity.

They were a straggling militia, scattered about under several independent authorities, and rooted to the soil through the possession of the ground; thanks to you, they are to become a regular, manageable army, emancipated from every local attachment, organized under one head, and always prepared to take the field at the word of command.