Francis the First, and His Times (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Francis the First, and His Times<br/><br/>This ingenuous and optimistic view of the world may seem puerile to our present philosophical and scientific acquirements. Then it was as a nimbus, the light of which guided man's footsteps, and filled his soul with a sure expectation of the after-life. Yet this belief was powerless to check his passions, or to excite scruples as to the mode of gratifying them. Saints have been rare at all times. Nevertheless, God's mercy being infinite, out of faith grew gentle ness and hope. AS a matter of course, one com pounded With Him as With one's fellow-men. His arms were always open to receive the penitent, and no Sinner, however great, was beyond the reach of His pardon.

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