... as it holds now, all distinctions of caste as odious. [Great laughter.] She regards no man — bond or free, white or black — as disqualified for the priesthood. This doctrine has, as Macaulay develops in his introductory chapters to his English history, mitigated many of the worst evils of society; for where race tyrannized over race, or baron over villein, Catholicism came between them a...