A movement of the first magnitude was accentuated by Pius IX., when by the Syllabus of 1864 he challenged modern society in all its foundations, its aims, its principles, in the whole range of its ideals.
Morley describes the significant challenge posed by Pius IX's Syllabus to the foundations of modern society.
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