Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/a545521400arthuoft THE POPE THE KINGS AND THE PEOPLE "Take thou the tiara adorned with the triple crown, and know that thou art the Father of princes and of kings, and art the Governor of The world."--_Coronation Service of the Pontiffs._ THE POPE THE KINGS AND THE PEOPLE A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by the late WILLIAM ARTHUR A.M Author of "The Tongue of Fire" etc. Edited by W. Blair Neatby M.A Author of "The Programme of the Jesuits" etc. London Hodder and Stoughton 27 Paternoster Row 1903 Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing Works Frome and London EDITOR'S PREFACE Though I am named as the Editor of the present edition of the late Rev. Wm. Arthur's _The Pope, the Kings, and the People_, it is right to say that, by a restriction of my own choosing--for the publishers were good enough to leave me a considerable discretion,--my editorial care has been limited to the work of abridgment.[1] It was clear from the first that in the short time at my disposal no attempt could be made to verify the multitude of Mr. Arthur's references and quotations, drawn as they were with a lavish hand from the contemporary literature of half Europe. Happily, all his readers must recognise how intelligent, laborious and scrupulous he has been. On the other hand, I had hoped to add a certain number of footnotes explanatory of allusions to events and circumstances that are much less fresh in the public memory to-day than they were twenty-six years ago. I should also greatly have liked to point out the extent, sometimes remarkable, to which Mr. Arthur's forecasts have been already verified. But I soon found that if I were to introduce fresh matter it must be at the expense of portions of the original edition that were not to be lightly discarded. I have therefore directed my efforts to adapting the book as far as possible to the requirements of the present time by the process of simple retrenchment. This process I have carried out most scrupulously. Every word in the abridgment is Mr. Arthur's own, and in Mr. Arthur's order. I have not even allowed myself to supply insignificant connecting words, however convenient they might have been, or however plainly they might be implied in the original work. This rule has entailed extra labour, but the gain seems to me immense. Every reader of this abridgment may know that he is reading Mr. Arthur's _ipsissima verba_, and that he may safely quote them as such. Not one word is mine.