To the Eve of the Great Session, July 18--A Fresh Shock for the Opposition--Serious Trick of the Presidents and Committee--Outcry of the French Bishops--Proposal to Quit the Council--They send in another Protest--What is Protestantism?--Immediate War not foreseen--Contested Canon adopted--The Bishops threatened--Hasty Proceedings--Final Vote on the Dogma--Unexpected Firmness of the Minority--Effect of the Vote--Deputation to the Pope--His incredible Prevarication--Ketteler's Scene--Counter Deputation of Manning and Senestrey--Vast Changes in the Decrees made in a Moment--Petty Condemnations--The Minority flies 597 CHAPTER VIII Grief of M. Veuillot--Final Deputation and Protest 624 CHAPTER IX From the Great Session to the Suspension of the Council, October 20, 1870--The Time now come for the Fulfilment of Promises--Position and Prospects--Second Empire and Papacy fall together--Style of Address to the Pope--War for the Papal Empire Foreshadowed--Latest Act of the Council--Italy moves on Rome--Capture of the City--Suspension of the Council--Attitude of the Church changed--Last Events of 1870 646 CHAPTER X How far has the Vatican Movement been a Success, and how far a Failure?--As to Measures of the Nature of Means a Success--As to Measures of the Nature of Ends hitherto a Failure--Testimony of Liberal Catholics to the one, and of Ultramontanes to the other--Apparatus of Means in Operation for the Ultimate End of Universal Dominion--Story of Scherr as an Example of the Minority--Different Classes of those who "Submit"--Condition and Prospects of the Two Powers in Italy--Proximate Ends at present aimed at--Control of Elections--Of the Press--Of Schools--Problem of France and Italy--Power of the Priests for Disturbance--Comparison between Catholic and Non-Catholic Nations for last Sixty Years--Are Priests capable of fomenting Anarchical Plots?--Hopes of Ultramontanes rest on France and England--The Former for Military Service, the Latter for Converts--This Hope Illusory 671 APPENDIX A The Syllabus with the Counter Propositions of Schrader 713 APPENDIX B Relation of the Church to the Baptized, and especially to Heretics 733 APPENDIX C The Constitutions "_Dei Filius_" and "_Pastor Æternus_" 757 APPENDIX D The Pope personally preparing Children for War 752 INDEX 753 _BOOK I_ _FROM THE ISSUE OF THE SYLLABUS TO ITS SOLEMN CONFIRMATION_ (_December 1864 to June 1867_) CHAPTER I The First Secret Command to commence Preparations for a General Council, December 6, 1864--Meeting of Congregation--All but Cardinals sent out--Secret Order--Events of the 8th--Solemn Anniversary--A historical _coup de soleil._