Excerpt from The Monks Before Christ: Their Spirit and Their History

At other times, I have discovered what seemed to me a higher standard of morality than that adopted by the monks, and a closer acquaintance with their mode of life, as it now exists in Europe, gave to the hopes which I once indulged a sad fall. Six months' observation in Southern France and Italy convinced me, that this institution was far from what I had thought to find it.

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