It is an audacious impiety in man to claim infallibility: "_humanum est errare_." Rationalism and Popery are above humanity. What Cicero said of the smile, when augur meets augur, it may be thought may take place when the Pope meets his confessor. For the Infallible confesses--what? There is but one infallible, the one Head of the Church which He made. He has given an infallible guide--the Holy Scriptures--all-sufficient, and which require no "development" to interpret them. Upwards of five centuries ago, the great poet of Italy spared not the expression of his indignation against Popes, monkeries, and their mercenary distribution of "blessings," "pardons," and "indulgences," that fatten, as he terms them, the "swine of St Anthony." He refers all true doctrine to the directions given by the only Infallible, and as taught by the primitive Church. "Non disse Christo al suo primo convento Andate, e predicate al mondo ciance. Ma diede lor verace fondamento." "Christ said not to his first conventicle Go forth, and preach impostures to the world, But gave them sure foundation." And, a few lines after, he speaks contemptuously of the mummery, and promises, pardons, and buffooneries of the Popish preachers of those days; and adds that, if the gaping populace could but see "the dark bird that nestles in the hood," they would "scarce wait to hear the blessing said." THE BOOK OF THE FARM.[8] [8] _The Book of the Farm._ By HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London: 1851.