Ritualism: or, a philosophic study on religious worship and ceremonies. Adapted from the French of A. Nicolas [i.e. from ch. 18 of “Études philosophiques sur le Christianisme”]. By a Priest of the Diocese of Exeter

authorised in themselves : the second , the mixing with them practices puerile and bad . With regard to the first sort of abuse , there is nothing more vigorous in the Gospel , or more express in its Catholic teaching , than the censure ...