Excerpt from Papalism: A Treatise on the Claims of the Papacy as Set Forth in the Encyclical Satis Cognitum De Maistre, a French Ultramontane, long ago had poi out the part which the Church of England seemed destine play in this great work when he said, 'if ever Christians to approach one another, as everything invites them to d appears that the movement ought to proceed from the Chure England.' 1 Many thought that the time was near at hand v the opportunity would be afforded to the English Churc undertake the work which De Maistre thought it espec competent to perform. About the Publisher 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.