Identifier: dutchlifeintown00houg (find matches)
Title: Dutch life in town and country
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, P.M., pseud
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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act, to work, either by themselves or conjointlywith any party that may assist them to realise, oreven to get nearer to, any of their religious ideals. When the Liberals, in the middle of the nine-teenth century, did an act of great toleration byemancipating the Roman Catholic Church, theProtestants threw over the Liberal Cabinet, andthe Liberal leader, Thorbecke, was returned toParliament by the most Catholic town of Hol-land, Maestricht, in Limburg. But afterwardsthe Anti-Revolutionists raised the cry for denomi-national education, and the Dutch Liberals wererather sore to find that their former friends joinedtheir antagonists. The soreness was in conse-quence of a miscalculation; the Liberals had for-gotten that in becoming emancipated the RomanCatholics did not become Liberals, but remainedRoman Catholics as before, faithful to their creed,and to their ideals, even at the cost of politicalfriendship. The common ground upon which Anti-Rev-olutionists and Roman Catholics meet is the
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Political Life and Thought 211 conviction that religion must in everything bethe starting-point. The Anti-Revolutionists takethe Scriptures as such ; the Roman Catholics ac-cept the Popes decisions, given ex cathedrd, asinspired by the Holy Spirit and transmitted tohim by Conclaves and Councils. For the rest,Romes creed is sheer idolatry to the Anti-Revo-lutionist Protestants, whereas Rome looks uponall Protestants as lost heretics. But both, again,consider such Protestants—the so-called Mod-erns —who reject the Trinity, the miracles, theDivine origin of the Bible, and certain otherdogmas, as simple atheists, and as most li Mod-erns are Liberals, and vice-versa, they proclaimthe Liberal State to be an atheistic State. Strictly speaking, there is really no Conserva-tive party in Holland, for it ceased to exist in thebeginning of the seventies. After Thorbeckegave Holland the Liberal constitution of 1848,the Conservatives tried for a time to obstruct thecountrys political developmen

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