The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete
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A gate of bronze! Yes, a hard, impregnable gate, so completely shutting the Vatican off from the rest ofthe world that nothing new had entered the palace for three hundredyears. Behind that portal the old centuries, as far as the sixteenth, remained immutable. Time seemed to have stayed its course there for ever;nothing more stirred; the very costumes of the Swiss Guards, the NobleGuards, and the prelates themselves were unchanged; and you foundyourself in the world of three hundred years ago, ...with its etiquette, itscostumes, and its ideas. That the popes in a spirit of haughty protestshould for five and twenty years have voluntarily shut themselves up intheir palace was already regrettable; but this imprisonment of centurieswithin the past, within the grooves of tradition, was far more seriousand dangerous. It was all Catholicism which was thus imprisoned, whosedogmas and sacerdotal organisation were obstinately immobilised. Perhaps, in spite of its apparent flexibility, Catholicism was really unable toyield in anything, under peril of being swept away, and therein lay bothits weakness and its strength.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A gate of bronze! Yes, a hard, impregnable gate, so completely shutting the Vatican off from the rest ofthe world that nothing new had entered the palace for three hundredyears. Behind that portal the old centuries, as far as the sixteenth, remained immutable. Time seemed to have stayed its course there for ever;nothing more stirred; the very costumes of the Swiss Guards, the NobleGuards, and the prelates themselves were unchanged; and you foundyourself in the world of three hundred years ago, ...with its etiquette, itscostumes, and its ideas. That the popes in a spirit of haughty protestshould for five and twenty years have voluntarily shut themselves up intheir palace was already regrettable; but this imprisonment of centurieswithin the past, within the grooves of tradition, was far more seriousand dangerous. It was all Catholicism which was thus imprisoned, whosedogmas and sacerdotal organisation were obstinately immobilised. Perhaps, in spite of its apparent flexibility, Catholicism was really unable toyield in anything, under peril of being swept away, and therein lay bothits weakness and its strength.
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