Excerpt from Rome in Many Lands, 1903: A Survey of the Roman Catholic Church With an Account of Some Modern Roman Developments IT is not intended or desired in this book to attack the Roman Catholic Church, or in any way to bring a railing accusation against Roman Catholics. Only two objects have been kept steadily in view. First, to give a fair and unbiassed account of the exaggerations and distortions of Christian doctrine, which have been produced partly by giving heed to the visions and hallucinations of overwrought ascetics, and partly by scholastic subtleties, deducing and sub-deducing, refining and arguing, until at last a totally false superstructure of dogma has been reared up on the smallest possible foundation of inference from simple truth. 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.