[80] _The National Reformer_ of 2nd Jan. 1864.

[81] MS. information.

[82] Readers unacquainted with the Italian language will find a
compendious exposition of M. Conti's philosophy, in a small volume
published, in 1863, under the title of _Le Camposanto de Pise ou le
Scepticisme_. (Paris, librairies Joël Cherbuliez et Auguste Durand; I
vol. in-18.)

[83] Such is the testimony rendered to him by M. Aug. Conti in his work,
_La Philosophie italienne_. (Paris, Joël Cherbuliez et Auguste Durand;
one small vol. 18mo.)

[84] _Le Rationalisme_ (in French), published with an introduction, by
M. D. Bancel, Brussels, 1858, page 27.

[85] The learned author appears to intimate that the distractions of the
Papacy, consequent on its political struggles for temporal power, hinder
the salutary influence which it might otherwise exercise in the
suppression of evil doctrines. The Translator feels it due to himself to
state here, once for all, that he has no sympathy whatever with such a
view of the influence of the Papacy. On the contrary, he is disposed to
attribute to the Church of Rome most of the evils which afflict, not
Italy only, but all the countries over which she has any power. Perhaps,
having "felt the weight of too much liberty" in his own Church, the
excellent author, fundamentally sound in his own views of Christian
doctrine, as is proved abundantly by his writings, has been led by a
natural reaction to give too much weight to the opposite principle of