Excerpt from The Pope, the Kings and the People: A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by an Universal Reconstruction of Society From the Issue of the Syllabus of the Close of the Vatican CouncilThis process I have carried out most scrupulously. Every word in the abridgment is Mr. Arthur's own, and in Mr. Arthur's order. I have not even allowed myself to supply insignificant connecting words, however convenient they might have been, or however plainly they might be implied in the original work. This rule has entailed extra labour, but the gain seems to me immense. Every reader of this abridgment may know that he is reading Mr. Arthur's ipsissima verba, and that he may safely quote them as such.

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