But you must remember what an incalculable number of works we should be compelled to read.

And so we have to content ourselves with condemning the worst _en bloc_." Then he complacently entered into explanations.

In principle, no printer ought to send any work to press without having previously submitted the manuscript to the approval of the bishop of the diocese.

Nowadays, however, with the enormous output of the printing trade, one could understand how terribly embarrassed the bishops would be if the printers were suddenly to conform to the Church's regulation.

There was neither the time nor the money, nor were there the men necessary for such colossal labour.