Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 32 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 32Ark and the Dove reached their new home at St. Clements and [st Mary's City, along the Chesapeake, in 1634, a bare fourteen years after the Plymouth expedition had set foot on their New England plantation.The two settlements present similarities and differences. The chief of the likenesses was that both the New Eng landers and the Marylanders sought an asylum on this side of the Atlantic against religious persecution, and the leading difference is that, whereas the Plymouth fugitives turned persecutors themselves in the name of religion, the Catholic Pilgrims of Maryland have the proud distinction and honor of having been the first colonial settlers in North America to tolerate complete liberty of conscience. They were the first to recognize in theory and in practice that, as Cardinal Manning has said, to force men to profess what they do not believe is contrary to the law of God, and to generate faith by force is morally impossible. They not only preached but practised religious toleration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.