"The Catholics," says the _Quarterly Review_ for January, 1873, pp. 181-2, "wherever they are numerous and powerful in a Protestant nation, _compel_ (sic) as it were by a law of their being, that nation to treat them with stern repression and control. . . . Catholicism, if it be true to itself, and its mission, _cannot_ (sic) . . . wherever and whenever the opportunity is afforded it, abstain from claiming, working for, and grasping that supremacy and paramount influence and control, which it conscientiously believes to be its inalienable and universal due. . . . By the force of circumstances, by the inexorable logic of its claims, it must be the intestine foe or the disturbing element of every state in which it does not bear sway; and . . . it must now stand out in the estimate of all Protestants, Patriots and Thinkers" (philosophers and historians, as Tacitus?) "as the _hostis humani generis_ (sic), &c."] [254:1] De Præscr. Hær. 41, Oxf. tr. [254:2] χρονῖται. [256:1] Cat. xviii. 26. [257:1] Contr. Ep. Manich. 5. [257:2] Origen, Opp. t. i. p. 809. [258:1] Strom. vii. 17. [258:2] c. Tryph. 35. [258:3] Instit. 4. 30. [259:1] Hær. 42, p. 366. [259:2] In Lucif. fin. [259:3] The Oxford translation is used. [263:1] _Rationabilis_; apparently an allusion to the civil officer called _Catholicus_ or _Rationalis_, receiver-general. [263:2] Ad. Parm. ii. init. [264:1] De Unit. Eccles. 6. [265:1] Contr. Cresc. iv. 75; also iii. 77. [266:1] Antiq. ii. 4, § 5. [267:1] Antiq. 5, § 3. [Bingham apparently in this passage is indirectly replying to the Catholic argument for the Pope's Supremacy drawn from the titles and acts ascribed to him in antiquity; but that argument is cumulative in character, being part of a whole body of proof; and there is moreover a great difference between a rhetorical discourse and a synodal enunciation as at Chalcedon.] [268:1] Ad Demetr. 4, &c. Oxf. Tr. [268:2] Hist. ch. xv. [269:1] De Unit. 5, 12. [269:2] Chrys. in Eph. iv. [269:3] De Baptism. i. 10. [269:4] c. Ep. Parm. i. 7. [269:5] De Schism. Donat. i. 10. [270:1] Cat. xvi. 10. [270:2] De Fid. ad Petr. 39. [82.] [270:3] [Of course this solemn truth must not be taken apart from the words of the present Pope, Pius IX., concerning invincible ignorance: "Notum nobis vobisque est, eos, qui invincibili circa sanctissimam nostram religionem ignorantiâ laborant, quique naturalem legem ejusque præcepta in omnium cordibus a Deo insculpta sedulo servantes, ac Deo obedire parati, honestam rectamque vitam agunt, posse, divinæ lucis et gratiæ operante virtute, æternam consequi vitam, cùm Deus, qui omnium mentes, animos, cogitationes, habitusque planè intuetur, scrutatur et noscit, pro summâ suâ bonitate et clementia, minimè patiatur quempiam æternis puniri suppliciis, qui voluntariæ culpæ reatum non habeat."] [272:1] Epp. 43, 52, 57, 76, 105, 112, 141, 144.