The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, Volume 9Charles George Herbermann Encyclopedia Press, 1913 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 210 - A malicious publication, by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign, or otherwise than by mere speech, which exposes any living person, or the memory of any person deceased, to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which causes, or tends to cause, any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person, corporation or association of persons, in his or their business or occupation, is a libel.
Page 211 - Privileged communications. A communication made to a person entitled to, or interested in, the communication by one who was also interested in or entitled to make it, or who stood in such a relation to the former as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing his motive innocent, is presumed not to be malicious, and is called a privileged communication.
Page 207 - God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
Page 291 - Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her.
Page 305 - Psalm cl. pRAISE ye the Lord in his holy places ; praise ye him in the firmament of his power. Praise ye him for his mighty acts; praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness. Praise him with sound of trumpet; praise him with psaltery and harp.
Page 243 - ... three stages in the development of the organic world when some new cause or power must necessarily have come into action.
Page 211 - The distinction between criticism and defamation is that criticism deals only with such things as invite public attention or call for public comment, and does not follow a public man into his private life or pry into his domestic concerns. It never attacks the individual, but only his work.
Page 243 - Here, then, we have indications of a new power at work, which we may term vitality, since it gives to certain forms of matter all those characters and properties which constitute Life. The next stage is still more marvellous, still more completely beyond all possibility of explanation by matter, its laws and forces. It is the introduction of sensation or consciousness, constituting the fundamental distinction between the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Here all idea of mere complication...
Page 136 - According to this system bodies act as if (to .. suppose the impossible) there were no souls at all, ' , and souls act as if there were no bodies, and yet both body and soul act as if the one were influencing the other.
Page 241 - ... the study of the cell has on the whole seemed to widen rather than to narrow the enormous gap that separates even the lowest forms of life from the inorganic world.