_ 151 Pachym._ II. 20, ed. Bonn.
152 According to a letter of his which reached Breslau the 12th July,
permission to depart has been refused him.
153 [The same strange confusion of thought seems still to prevail among
some fervid infallibilists of the English and Irish Episcopate, to
judge from their pastorals issued since the decree of July 18.—TR.]
154 Meanwhile the _Unita_ of July 15 has already begun to indicate the
wholesome political fruits which may be looked for from the dogma of
infallibility. Gallicanism, which demanded fixed guarantees against
papal decisions, has paved the way, according to Margotti, for
constitutionalism and parliamentarism; for after a Pope whose
decrees _ex cathedrâ_ are not irreformable, comes a king limited by
the Constitution, and then the era of parliamentary revolutions and
political storms is introduced. But now the bright example set by
the Bishops in their submission to the infallible Pope will restore
not France only, but the whole of Europe. From them the nations will
learn to submit as children to their sovereigns, the kingdom of
unrighteousness will pass away, and the kingdom of God succeed. That
is plain speaking; absolutism in the Church will lead to absolutism
in the State. Margotti then surrenders himself to the most brilliant
hopes, predicts unprecedented miracles, and records those which have
been already wrought for infallibility during the Council, or will
immediately be wrought. We cannot venture to withhold them from our
readers. First, it seemed impossible to attain an agreement of the
Bishops on the proclamation of infallibility; all wanted to speak,
and the discussion seemed likely to be endless. But the Holy Ghost
unexpectedly interposed; above sixty Bishops waved their right to
speak, and the _Schema_ was voted and approved. Secondly, a great
opposition of all the governments was feared, who only kept quiet
while they watched the quarrels of the Bishops themselves in the
Council. But scarcely had the Bishops shown themselves unanimous,
when the Hohenzollern question turned up, which absorbs everybody’s
attention, and leaves the Church in peace. The third miracle is
still in the future—the dogma will suddenly dissipate the menaces of
war, because the word of God, like the Son of God, only comes into
the world in the midst of universal peace.