As to the majority of those who to-day call themselves free-thinkers, they confuse religious freedom with irreligion; they choose not to see that in religion as in politics, between a royalty based on divine right and anarchy there is room for a government which may be as strong as the first and a better guarantee of freedom than the second.

The spirit of the older time put God outside of the world; the sovereignty outside of the people; authority outside of the conscience.

The spirit of the new times has the contrary tendency: it denies neither God nor sovereignty nor authority, but it sees them where they really are.
[3] _Nemo ostendebat mihi quod deberem facere, sed ipse Altissimus revelavit mihi quod deberem vivere secundem formam sancti Evangelii._ Testamentum Fr.
[4] The wealthiest monasteries of France are of the twelfth century or were enlarged at that time: Arles, S.Gilles, S.
Sernin, Cluny, Vezelay, Brioude, Issoire, Paray-le-Monial.

The same was the case in Italy.
Down to the year 1000, 1,108 monasteries had been founded in France.

The eleventh century saw the birth of 326 and the twelfth of 702.