This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...by a theory of intention; and that of avoiding falsehood by sometimes speaking loud and sometimes low; with various other, similar sophistries, of your gravest doctors? Is any thing more required for my justification?'' Is aught/ as says Tertullian, ''due to such opinions--so compounded of weakness and inanity--but ridicule?'' Yes, Reverend Fathers, I must tell you that the corruption of morals to which your doctrines lead, requires also another mode of animadversion; and we may justly ask with the same holy writer again, ''Shall we laugh at their folly, or lament their blindness:'' ''Rideam vanitatem, an exprobrem ccecitatem?'' My conviction is, my Fathers, that we may at our pleasure both laugh and weep by turns! ''Haec tolerabilius vel ridentur, vel flentur/ says St. Augustine, cont. Faust. B. 20, C. 6. Remember that Holy Writ declares the same truth. And it is my desire that I may not see realized in you those words in the Proverbs, "There are some so unreasonable as never to be satisfied, however they are treated, whether it be by ridicule, or by anger." P. S.--Since closing my letter, I have seen a publication emanating from your Society, in which I am accused of misrepresentation in regard to six of your maxims, reported by me, and of making common cause with heretics. I trust you will receive an exact and early reply to this charge; and I suspect that, after a time, you will not be much inclined to repeat these kind of recriminations. If by the ''Proverbs'' here is meant the part of Scripture so entitled, the above must, I apprehend, be only a paraphrase of some passage, as I am not aware of any part from which it is literally taken. (TransL) LETTER XII. Refutation Op The Sophistries Of The Jesuits On The Subjects Of Alms-giving And Simony. Reverend...