rom the great
seminary where they ought never to have been admitted." This reform was
effected by the new director, M. Emery, and met with such opposition
that it almost cost him his life.]

[Footnote 5272: M. de Talleyrand, "Memoires," vol. i. (Concerning one of
his gallantries.) "The superiors might have had some Suspicion,... but
Abbe couturier had shown them how to shut their eyes. He had taught them
not to reprove a young seminarist whom they believed destined to a high
position, who might become coadjutor at Rheims, perhaps a cardinal,
perhaps minister, minister de la feuille--who knows?"]

[Footnote 5273: "Diary in France," by Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. 1845.
(Weakness of the course of study at Saint-Sulpice.) "There is no regular
course of lectures on ecclesiastical history."--There is still at the
present day no special course of Greek for learning to read the
New Testament in the original.--"Le clerge francais en 1890" (by an
anonymous ecclesiastic), pp.24-38. "High and substantial service is
lacking with us.... For a long time, the candidates for the episcopacy
are exempt by a papal bull from the title of doctor."--In the seminary
there are discussions in barbarous Latin, antiquated subjects, with
the spouting of disjointed bits of text: "They have not learned how
to think. .. Their science is good for nothing; they have no means or
methods even for learning.... The Testament of Christ is what they are
most ignorant of.... A priest who devotes himself to study is regarded
either as a pure speculator unfit for the government, or with an
ambition which nothing can satisfy, or again an odd, ill-humored,
ill-balanced person; we live under the empire of this stupid
prejudice,... We have archeologists, assyriologists, geologists,
philologists and other one-sided savants. The philosophers, theologians,
historians, and canonists have become rare."]

[Footnote 5274: "Journal d'un voyage en France," by Th. W. Allies,
1845, p.38. (Table of daily exercises in Saint-Sulpice furnished by Abbe
Caron, former secretary to the archbishop of Paris.)--Cf. in "Volupte,"
by Saint-Beuve, the same table furnished by Lacordaire.]

[Footnote 5275: "Manreze du pretre," by the Rev. Father Caussette, I.,
82.]

[Footnote 5276: Ibid., I., 48. "Out of 360 meditations made by a priest
during the year, 300 of them are arid." We have the testimony of Abbe
d'Astros on the efficacy of prayers committed to memory, who was in
prison for th