The Vickers and Purcell Controversy Respectfully Presented to All the Lovers of Truth

Excerpt from The Vickers and Purcell Controversy: Respectfully Presented to All the Lovers of TruthTo the Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette:Dear Sir:Partly because I have been urgently requested, and partly from the hope that some good may be effected by it, I now give this controversy in a connected form to the public. And, inasmuch as I am not only willing, but desirous, that both sides should have a full and candid hearing, I have printed all of Archbishop Purcell's articles in full, even to the long extract from his Pastoral appended to the editorial in the Catholic Telegraph of October 30th. Every thing appears here precisely as it was originally printed in the Catholic Telegraph, the Cincinnati Commercial, and the Cincinnati Gazette, without addition or abbreviation. In the articles of Archbishop Purcell I have allowed many apparently typographical errors to stand, especially such as are found in the Latin quotations, and in the names of persons and places. I did this for the reason that after the articles had appeared in the Catholic Telegraph as here printed, Archbishop Purcell made no attempt to have them corrected before they appeared in the Gazette, and therefore left me to infer that he had a peculiar theory of orthography, with which it would be better not to meddle.The only thing not hitherto published is the sermon from the text "Always learning." I publish it because it treats more fully a point elsewhere only incidentally touched upon. I intended also to publish a sermon on the "Causes of Religious Intolerance and Persecution," delivered November 24th, but the space already occupied by the discussion is so much greater than I originally expected, that I was compelled to exclude it. The open letter addressed by Mr. Paul Mohr to Archbishop Purcell reviews several points of the discussion in so clear and succinct a manner, and awakened such general interest at the time of its appearance, that its republication seemed necessary to make the documents of the controversy complete. The celebrated Encyclical Letter of Pius IX, issued December 8th, 1864, with its Syllabus of Modern Errors, in the original with a parallel translation, will add greatly to the value and interest of the book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.