PANPATRISM versus PATRIOTISM.

NZ Truth, Issue 509, 20 March 1915, Page 1

PANPATRISM versus PATRIOTISM.

RHJR FOURFOLD fATtrUL fORCES : I Anglican \ 'Slav RACIAL RIVALRIES-RELIGIOUS RANCOURS. COMMERCIAL COMPETITION— COLONIAL CONQUEST. INDEFINITE IMPERIAL EXPANSION. ..-". :".- : , Vee • ■•-.■■. Victls!

i^. cprr,£spqnden.t who ' cHarges, ' rp^ Ajjigj^l* \ot Proteitahtiflrn r off jjire^ft<^pn; ■4Ad let the! Catholic c6ri;u£terß of;3j&nscii|sn. <<c 'id . wltnb^i: 'sr tford;.*'- ' ' Hfe ' ' ttVlfftt jist ao well ask why I.dp'i'texll^t/ cort mon senqe from craokpates,. oK'jirhy .'jt do expect to get milk and butter, cream and cheese from the lacteal fluid of cows. I'm not presuming to condemn St. Pqrnl for his prevarication: I simply state a fact attested by pis own alleged admissions quoted m. the lallt number of this series. When a fervent fanatic tells mfc that _ he's, a bit of a liar and a. conscientious pre--1 vnricatoi* for the pious purpose of proselytising for ,a religious,, belief Which he had furiously persecuted up t^ the very hour, in which he perforce became (from the Hebrew standpoint) ai pervert, am I ndt bound to believe him? Rather., •, I'm not particularly concerned about the -Jesuits except to admire their achievements and wonder at their pdl--1 Icy. I apprehend .that the Jesuits, occasion given, are aii well able to defend • themselves now, us they have ever ■hown themselves to be In times past. Those who dread the Jesuits -most ■(•cm to know them least. It's always thus m matters religious, the mostikiWant are the most superstitious. $u'pirstition is timidity, liable to'degenerate Into cowardice and cruelty. Rly correspondent, who seems to. know as little about thin great and gallant guard oC tho Catholic Church militant us an ass is assumed to know of astroriomy. ought to go in>for a course of rVftri'ing of rollglp.us history, and .include the works of t.W9A«uch.,emin6nt Vrpfcstant hlstorl^^/^S^Kanke and Macaulay In his c«trr||glum. ' • ■ •'■'"'■ • • Perhaps no work of ancient or modern times gives a clearer view of the pcllcy and purpose of the foundation of the great Society of Jesus than the "History of the Popes," by Leopold flankc.-the celebrated German, Lutheran professor of history In the University- of llerlln. This well-known Protestant work was published more than three-quarters of a century ago. It Immediately took the position of the standard Protestant authority on tlio organisation and policy both of the Papacy and of Its chief defenders, the Jesuits. From that position or >»h>\lU pre-emlnonce.lt has never been displaced m. the 'estimation of Protestßiit sectaries or that of skeptical agnostic*. It Is admired for iia impartiality and cundour, oven by Catholics, although the book is not approved by the Pai-reri College, whlch.nlaced It on the Index. " • ♦ . • .Sarah Austin, tho talented and candid translator of Bank*. In her. preface to her translation of Ills "Lives of the Popes," published In Wh makes the following pregnant observations., which are as pertinent to the present position of the controversy between Catholicism and Protestantism «s they were when written nearly aevcnty-Hvo i^^©oi-8 ago:— B>" The tltlo docs not appear to mo to ™ represent accurately the subject of the book, which Is not so much a 'history of the Popes as ft history of jthe great struggle between CatholicIsm and Protestantism, between authority and Innovation. In which the I'op«s were, imleftd. actors, but generally rathor as the servants than tho rulers of event*. Th* chW Jnton'Kt of the work lies In solution It affords of tho greatest problem of modern history. It Is Impossible to contemplate tho rapid and apparently roslstlis* progross of the Reformation In Us Infancy, without wondering what was the power which arrested and forced featic the tomnt, and reconquered to

>•• lhe r a nclerit faith', cpuntttej? i Ji Hv^et«sj[aiiUßm seemed" flJ"iftly estab- " Jished.** <*■$? "■i t *s^'+'^»«TM%W-W :: -'" !The r ebb-a'tJd-flow^o'f this mighty wave are traced wit h^lnguUtf > Vif idness as wclV'Afi ahcuracy' inVthevfoli lowing pageli^ ->■< • .th' them wilt also .be seen". Sow many of the- elements :bf Protestantism lived and moved m the bdsom of the Cathpllc Church;— arid,' on the other hand, how many of the" institutions*,, and how much>ot the spirit, of the ancient church/ have adhered to some forms of Pr6testantl^m. ' . i • # - v '■ • ' ' ..#..;; Speaking of the stability of the Tapacy and its varying policies. vlnder a long line of successive Popes ..whoso beginning is lost m the mist of ages. Ranke, m his own- preface to tlie original German Edition- of his "magnum opus," observes:— • \". ■ If we look through the catalogue of all those- halves so often repeated through tho wlible series of centuries, from Plus I. In the second, down to our contemporaries, Plus VII. and VIII. m the nineteenth, It produces tho impression' of an 'unbroken stability; but We must, not .suffer, oucwelves to be misled by this appearance, slm-p, In truth, tho I*opeß of different ages are distinguished from eaoh other by differences nearly, an essential as th*» dynasties -of a kingdom. Vbr us, who stand aloof, those transforms tioiiß are precisely the most Interesting object of attention. In them we. trace a portion of the history of the world, of tfte progress of the wbole human rice^ not only m the periods of the disputed supremacy of tho Catholic Church, but. perhaps still more m; those marked b£- the. shock of action and counter-action-r n « m ,the times which tho following work la lhtendod to embrace— the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; m which wo see the Papacy threatened and shaken to its foundation, yet maintaining and strengthening and reextending its power; Ip which we wee it for a time advancing, conquering, but then again checked and tottering once;moro to its fall; periods m which the mind of the Western nations 'was peculiarly busied with ecclesiastical « questions: and that power which, deserted and attacked by the one, was v uphekl and defended with fresh steal by the other, necessarily asserted a high tind universal importance. '» • • In the foregoing quotation from Rinke. and m the prior extract from Miss Austin's profaUrlnl appreciation of his epoch-making. book, It is easy to trace to its source the Inspiration of Maeaulay'H celebrated Kssay. Not only the ideas, but the fa.e'ts and their very uequence and the literary forms m which they find expression m Runke are reproduced by that brilliant pen-picture painter, and most mendacious of Protestant partinnn writers, m that Essay, which should be m the hands of every "anxious Inquirer" to whom Ranke's works are not readily accessible. }t will prove, an eye-opener to that clasa of religious anarchists who, while repudiating all forms of authority In mattern of re^BlouK opinion and worship, satisfy their suvago houlb by denouncing tho Pope as Anti-Christ and the Papacy as the Scarlet Whore. • • « While these anarchical energurnons run riot after their Luthers, Henry tho Klghths (and his blessed daughter Uetsy) — the Johanna Southcotes, with her Shlloh Cradle— Joe Smiths . and Hrlgham Youngs, with their Book of Mormon — Maria Monks and Edith O'Oormans and other "Eflcaped Nuns" —"Father" Chlnlquys— Father Slntterys. their sweet " "««i»ter«," or "lodabout vlrßins" — Ood is In H6aven and m«*n live and die. Yet, notwithstanding tho exposure of all these frauds and delusions, do men and women of the sHllor sort run after falae prophets of tho type of the late drivelling, d«ment«a.

i dirty- dreamer "Elijah" Dpwie, founder of the modern Zion, the New Jerusalem (m. the purlieus of that Paradise of pork -packers, Chicago) — since gone to everlasting moral and monetary smash. The last is really much too long and serlotfs a sentence for so .stale,* unsavoury a subject as the squad of squalid, sordid "saints" therein marked down.' The excuse for. mentioning such mental arid .moral monstrosities must^be ( the necessity of showing how lack of authority m religious as m civil society leads to' misgovernment, misrule, and ultimately' to anarchy. These modern manifestations of the evil- resulting from lack of- authority and moral control m Church and State are only repetitions on a smaller scale of the anarchical outburst against civil order arid religious authority that ensued m Germany and elsewhere as the result ,ot the "Glorioiiß Reformation" worked ' up by Luther, a renegade monk, married to a renegade nun-with the significantly sounding name ot Bohr. . .- ♦•■ . • ; ■ • . . What Luther wrought with the aid of such worthy coadjutors as John Calvin (the. burner of Servetus), Henry VlH. '.(the bloody Protestant Bluebeard), his •- sweet "virgin" daughter old Betsy (murderer, of Queen Mary of Scots), and bis darling little Protestant I saint of a son, Edward VI. (so ruiu-h "clay" m the hands of the crafty and cruel Protestant Protector Somerset) wns.only a foretaste of what PuritanIsm, wrought m the .English Rebellion, and Jacobinism m the French Revolution. There's little to choose, an regards fantastical ferocity, between Luther's John of Munster and Knipperdbmnb; £{iC£r<fm%of J'a Level i lers'^na VlTiffh Monarchy Men, or the callous cruelty atfd .brutal blasphemy of I Robespierre's sansculottes and enrmagn?,l?W[&!,^£.euch epoch ,ln every ense the 'strtth^ arm of military power had to' be: invoked to redress "the overturned balance of religious authority and civil order. , " • V ' + ' \ Luther had,to invoke the aid of the bigamous German Electors of the Schamcaldin League (to whom he had — iHke.the Protestant Pope ho presumed to be— granted the pornic privilege of polygamy) to put down by the sword the bestial brood of anarchical' Anabaptists, who had promptly put into public practice on a large scale the polygamous prinoiples which Luther had permitted his political protectors to practise m private on a small scale. Cromwell had to blow out the brains or to hang the bodies of the Levellers whom he had raised up from the Puritan ranks, like Frankenstein monsters, to worry him and thwart his ambition. Robespierre^the high priest of Philophilanthropy, manifesting its merits In massacres, guillotinadcs, noyades, and fusillades, ' and the worship of the Goddess of Reason — after he had rid himself of his milder rivals m murder and anarchy, Danton, Camille Dcsmoulinp. and Chaumette. was himself, with his cutthroat coadjutors St. Just nnd Couthon. wiped out by Talllien, Billaud Varennes, and Barer?, who, m their turn, were wiped out Vy Cnrnot, Sleyes, and Barras. • • • , Nothing else remaining m Church or State to be wiped out but the mass of the people themselves, these, m their anarchical agony, shrieked out for a' saviour. Their saviour came, not m the shape of a prating, platformppslng patriot Frenchman, buf m .the form of a lfcttle, silent, strong man on horseback, with a sword m his hand — Nnpoleon Bonaparte, the pure-bred Italian from Corsica, with not a drop of French blood In his veins, and unable to speak French correctly. When Xnpoleon came. Anarchy rioted m Chaos. He crushed anarchy and compelled order out of chaos; art the wheels of progress whirling anew along the path of Liberty for Ability, which he had pioneered with his sword, and puve'd with the. bohos and cemented with llie blood of Frenchmen who but the day before wore niussacring each other for the Love of Liberty and adoring a Whore us the Goddess of Reason for want of v God. • # « All tlilH was the result of tlu- repudiation of authority m 'religion, und the rejection of all civil order. Since Napoleon rescued Franco from anarchy, restored religion and civil order, and pointed the way to freedom, and pur* sued It -to the emancipation of many peoples— French, Italian. Austrian, German. Russiun, Dutch, and Flamand —Europe, manumitted from the manacles of mediaeval feudalism, has never looked back but with rcßrct to the strong, Morn, yet masterly merciful rule of the Great Llttlo Italian man nnd Monarch of Men from Corsica. • • « This seems like straying from the subject of the Protestant prevarication of Paul nnd the Catholic casuistry of tho Jesuits to pouch upon my own temporarily closed preserves of the "Christ, Cucsur. and Nnpoleon" scrlon. That NorloH will be, perhaps, re-opened after the "Lone, LonK Wny to Tippcrary" has been rowred by ihe connuorlr»K Allies tn the nwful wnr now raging, nnd the tlnpot Napoleon who has caused H duly raptured and cnt»hi*r<>d. nnd hl« ■ horrible hordes of uwful Huna definitely defeated and discreetly decimated. But prolixity on subject* somewhat extraneous, but not alto-