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...human individuality and a vital sense of man's dignity. With this came also an awakened interest in the Latin authors. Following Petrarch's discovery of some of Cicero's correspondence came the discovery of the remainder by Niccoli, who was the founder of textual criticism. Poggio, a Papal secretary, was the discoverer of many Latin manuscripts, and by 1433, a century after Petrarch, he has discovered or assisted in the discovery of the manuscripts of 15 Latin authors, including Cicero, Tacitus, Plautus and Lucretius. All the discoveries of this century, however, were but a small percentage of the amount...
...lecture will discuss in particular the Catholic reaction of the nineteenth century with its culmination in the dogma of papal infallibility, the existing antagonism between the church and the various European governments, the tendency of the church to perpetuate in the modern world the spirit of the Roman Empire and its opposition to nationality, and the decline of the reaction under the influence of the modern motives of nationality and personality. It will also touch upon the significance of the career of Leo XIII, the place of the Bible in modern life, and the significance of Protestantism as a political...
...Marion Crawford will lecture in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening on Leo XIII in the Vatican. The lecture will be of special interest as Mr. Crawford is a Catholic and intimately acquainted with the Papal Household...
...short time ago Mr. Crawford wrote a series of articles on St. Peter's and the Vatican for The Century Magazine, and was then given the most unusual facilities for studying life in the Papal Palace. His present lecture gives the most intimate portrayal of the Pope that anyone has been privileged to prepare...
...temporal power aid or hinder the real advancement of the papal interests...