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General Note.
I avail myself of a little spare space to add,
from Michelet’s friend, E. Quinet,1136
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A translation of Quinet, on Ultramontanism, appeared
in London in a semi-infidel series, 1845. | the passage to which I have made a
reference on p. 156. Let me say, however, that Quinet and
Michelet are specimens of that intellectual revolt against Roman dogma
which is all but universal in Europe in our day, and of which the
history of M. Renan is a melancholy exposition. To Quinet, with
all his faults, belongs the credit of having more thoroughly understood
than any theological writer the absolute revolution created by the
Council of Trent; and he justly remarks that the Jesuits showed their
address “in making this revolution, without anywhere speaking
of it.” Hence a dull world has not observed it.
Contrasting this pseudo-council with the free councils of antiquity, M.
Quinet says: “The Council of Trent has not its roots in all
nations; it does not assemble about it the representatives of all
nations…omni plebe adstante, according to the
ancient formula…The East and the North are, almost equally,
wanting; and this is why the king of France refused it the title of
a council.” He quotes noble passages from
Bossuet.1137
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