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If the sectaries of Maho- met were combined in defence of their false faith under their Caliph, was it not equally incumbent on the followers of the Cross to confederate under one Temporal head, whose mediation should pre- vent the shedding of Christian blood, and whose power should protect them against every infidel enemy? Accompanied by this solemn admo- nition was the sword delivered by the Pontiff to the successor of the Cassars ; and such the call which Charlemagne obeyed. A glorious hypot...hesis, but involving mutu- ally destructive interferences and insuperable contradictions; irreconcilable to Divine Faith, and irremovable by human ability. Yet piety and policy, the purest aspirations and the most selfish views, are all found at various periods to have encouraged this majestic vision ; and after the dethronement of Charles-le-Gros, the en creasing confusion of affairs in Italy in general, and in Rome in particular, where the most profligate of men had been promoted to Saint Peter's Chair by the violences of the ferocious and profligate nobles, called loudly "for a remedy.
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