Excerpt from The Papacy: And the Civil Power N ot so with the Protestant. He appeals to reason; ex amines history for himself; weighs both evidence and argu ment; and exercises his own intelligent judgment in sepa rating right from wrong, truth from falsehood. While the papacy demands implicit and passive obedience - the entire submission of the whole man, by the sacrifice of all his sense of personality - Protestantism encourages and develops this sense by treating every individual as endowed with the fac ulty of reason, and as possessing the right to employ it for himself. Manifestly, he who does not do it is mere clay in the hands of the potter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.