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With wonderful industry and learning, the editor has incorporated the small book of Adamnan in a mass of new matter, every word of which is equally instructive and interesting to the student. There is no doubt that the saints of Irish origin supply by far the more important portion of our hagiology. They are countless.
The Catholic saints did not fly through the air, nor were their hearts pierced with supernatural darts, as the mendacious hagiology of their Church would have us believe; but they have a better title to be remembered by mankind, as the best examples of a beautiful and precious kind of human excellence. The papal autocracy has now reached its Byzantine period of decadence.
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