Excerpt from The Pope, the Kings and the People, Vol. 1: A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by an Universal Reconstruction of Society From the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council On those principles and projects four distinct controversies have shed a steadily increasing light - the controversy on, 1. The Syllabus; 2. The Vatican Council; 3. The Old Catholic Move ment; 4. The Falk Laws. The last two do not come within the scope of this work, but very much of the light by which we gradually come to understand the preceding stages of the move ment, is due to the keen discussions to which these two contro versies have given rise. 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.