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the angelical and human prevarication, all the perfections of God found an exterior manifestation, except that perfection which was to be manifested on Calvary, then order was restored.

The deeper we investigate these fearful dogmas, the more conspicuous we find the supreme agreement, the perfect connection, and the marvelous consonance existing between all the Christian mysteries. The science of mysteries, if we carefully reflect upon it, is simply the science by which all things are solved.

Before concluding this book, we shall examine the opinions of the liberal and socialist schools, with regard to good and evil, and respecting God and man—fearful questions, which greatly embarrass human reason when it undertakes to solve the great problems relating to religion, politics, and society.

As regards the liberal school, I shall simply say of it that in its arrogant ignorance it despises theology; not that this school is not theological in its own way, but because it 1s so without knowing it. This school has never been able to perceive, and probably never will perceive, the close tie that binds together things human and divine, the affinity that political questions bear to social and religious questions, and the dependence of all problems respecting the government of nations, upon