Great Catholic Laymen (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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It will be said at once that hitherto Catholics, at least in these countries, through the lack of University training, and therefore through the absence of that fine sense of appreciation for whatever is valuable or attractive in the persona lities of their great co-religionists', have been con spicuously indifferent about the lives or thoughts, or works of those, who clinging fast to the tenets of their faith, have wrought great deeds either through the emancipation of oppressed creeds or nationalities, or through important additions to literature, or through discoveries in science made in the seclusion of their studies or labo ratories. And from this indifference there sprang a natural, yet quite erroneous inference, that outside the domain of theology and philosophy the Catholic Church had little to show in the industry or intelligence of her children. Appa'

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The only reason I can advance for prefixing this introduction to a book, which will speak eloquently for itself, is that I believe that it was I who had the good fortune of inspiring the writer with the idea of the necessity in our age of some such handbook of Catholic biography, as this proves to be. For the need, though perfectly apparent, of such a series of Catholic lives, never seems to have attracted Catholic writers; or if it did, they must have assured themselves that the time was not ripe for such a publication, or that Catholic sense and intelligence were not ripe enough to demand it. And yet, who has not felt the want of some such compilation as that now presented to the public? The great writers, thinkers, and workers of other religions, or no religion, have been glorified by studies, memoirs, biographies, or reminiscences without number. Their reliques, letters - everything appertaining to them have been published, and read eagerly by a public, who delight in probing into the secrets of its heroes.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.