The Question Solved; An Answer to REV. Dr. Clark's Question of the Hour and His Other Anti-Catholic Problems (Paperback)

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. 1870 Excerpt: ... the vilest immorality, degradation, and slavery, springing out from ancient Grecian and Roman civilization, which our modern historians, lecturers, and preachers admire so much, and with great show of learning, and not a little bombast, deal out to their admiring audiences in glowing eulogy; but not a word of the struggles of the Catholic Church, amid the raging torrents of persecution, with, which kings and tyrants threatened to engulf her; but, thanks to that august Being who preserved her, despite the malice of her enemies, she still lives, fresh and vigorous, pursuing her sacred vocation, that of teaching and proclaiming man's duty to his God. In the days of Pericles, Thucydides, and Sophocles, the most classic of the ancients, the brilliant Euripides, Zeno, and the divine Phidias, the public school was a theatre of vice, where the worst instincts of the human heart were nurtured. The animal passions became so gross, that cannibalism was not only practiced, but taught. The Stoics deemed it not unlawful to eat human flesh, and even permitted children to devour their own parents. In the age of Rome's greatness, Julius Caesar and Augustus were patrons of the arts and sciences, and representatives of the civilization of their time, yet, with all their learning, elegance, and grandeur, their depravity sounded the lowest depths. Julius Csesar knew nothing of the divine attribute of mercy. Read his character as portrayed by Suetonius, and then boast of the splendors of the golden age Sitting on his throne of gold, he would, with his own hands, pluck out men's eyes, break their limbs, cut their throats, and have their bodies thrown to the dogs and birds of prey. Behold, on the Ides of March, altars erected in honor of Julius Csesar, stakes and inflammable mat...