The Manreze is the grotto where Saint Ignatius found the plan of his Exercitia and the three ways by which a man succeeds in detaching himself from the world, "the purgative, the illuminative and the unitive." The author says that he has brought all to the second way, as the most suitable for priests.

He himself preached pastoral retreats everywhere in France, his book being a collection of rules for retreats of this kind.] [Footnote 5279: Someone who, like me, have lived through the attempted Communist conquest of the world, in Eastern Europe, in China, Korea, Vietnam and other conquered territories, the terrible experiences of those imprisoned in re-education camps, come to mind.

Did Lenin have Taine translated?
Did Lenin and Stalin use this description of catholic brainwashing as their model?
We might never find out.

(SR.)] [Footnote 5280: One of these enduring effects is the intense faith of the prelates, who in the 18th century believed so little.

At the present day, not made bishops until about fifty years of age, thirty of which have been passed in exercises of this description, their piety has taken the Roman, positive, practical turn which terminates in devotions properly so called.