Excerpt from The Antidote, Vol. 2 The first volume of this series was published in 1902, and represented practically the produce of the previous year. It will be inferred that the delay in the appearance of the second volume has not been in any way caused by lack of material 2 as far as that goes, the series is not unlikely to be an infinite one. After much sifting, there remains enough matter in the Editor's hands - and that from a single source to fill several further volumes, and, of course, fresh subjects are constantly cropping up. The soil in which the poisonous plants of anti-catholic controversy flourish is so permeated with their fibres that seemingly no amount of uprooting and burning can serve to clear it thoroughly. However, there are signs that some of those hardy perennials have' lost much of their vitality, that others are moribund, and some few. Actually dead; and these signs encourage the tillers of that soil to continue their weary but not wholly unprofitable task. 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.