Excerpt from The History of the Papacy, to the Period of the Reformation, Vol. 2 of 2 Soon after the middle Of the ninth century we see the structure Of the papacy beginning to rise from the foundation which had been already laid; but its pro gress was Often almost imperceptible, and strongly broken by impediments and reverses, resembling, in this respect, not exactly the steady and regular rising of an edifice, but rather the rising tide, which sometimes appears to be stationary, or even to recede, while yet on the whole it is making a real and sure ad vance. We now proceed to review the progress of this Spiritual dominion, with its various acts of usurpation from the middle of the ninth century to the middle of the eleventh. 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.