husbands, the sons, the brothers, which you have torn from their families. Put off your robe, quit your palace, take the Bible in your hand, and go round the world preaching the gospel, as your Master did. Do this, and we shall have had a jubilee such as the world has not seen for many a long year. But ah! you but mock us,--bitterly, cruelly mock us,--when you deny us blessings which it is in your power to give, and offer us those which are not yours to bestow. But it is a mockery which will return, and at no distant day, in sevenfold vengeance upon, we say not Pio Nono, but the papal system. Untie the fetters of these men; make them free for but a few hours; and with what terrible emphasis will they demand back the friends whom the Papacy has buried in dungeons or murdered on the open scaffold! They will seek their lost sons and brothers with an eye that will not pity, and a hand that will not spare. CHAPTER XXVII. EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE PAPAL STATES. Education of a Roman Boy--Seldom taught his Letters--Majority of Romans unable to Read--Popular Literature of Italy--- Newspaper of the Roman States--Censorship of the Press--Studies in the Collegio Romano--Rome unknown at Rome--Schools spring up under the Republic--Extinguished on the Return of the Pope--Conversation with three Roman Boys--Their Ideas respecting the Creator of the World, Christ, the Virgin--Questions asked at them in the Confessional--Religion in the Roman States--Has no Existence--Ceremony mistaken for Devotion--Irreverence--The Six Commands of the Church--Contrast betwixt the Cost and the Fruits of the Papal Religion--Popular Hatred of the Papacy.