"The Lord of the World" is an interesting novel by Robert Benson, the son of an Anglican bishop who converted to Catholicism. Now psychology claims all the rest of the ground and the supernatural sense seems accou First, you see, there was Materialism, pure and simple that failed more or less-it was too crude-until psychology came to the rescue. Then there is the enormous progress of psychology-all clean against us for at least a century. In Italy? Well, we have Rome again to ourselves, but nothing else here, we have Ireland altogether and perhaps one in sixty of England, Wales and Scotland but we had one in forty seventy years ago. We hold our position in the East, certainly but even there we have not more than one in two hundred-so the statistics say-and we are scattered. In France and Spain we are nowhere in Germany we are less. I suppose that we have, nominally, about one-fortieth of America now-and that is the result of the Catholic movement of the early twenties. "Now, we Catholics, remember, are losing we have lost steadily for more than fifty years. E established legally in another ten years at the latest.
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