THE
CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. XXIII., No. 134.—MAY, 1876.
Copyright: Rev. I. T. Hecker. 1876.
THE ROOT OF OUR PRESENT EVILS.
When Mr. Dickens repaid the hospitality which he had received by his extremely humorous satires of this country, he called the attention of all Americans to the extent to which our national vanity was likely to blind us. Mr. Chollop’s opinion to the effect that “we are the intellect and virtue of the airth, the cream of human natur, and the flower of moral force,” has been secretly cherished by many better men.