[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) CHAPTER III THE CLERGY 46/63
SR.)] [Footnote 5314: Emile Keller, ibid., passim .-- In many communities of men and of women the personal expenses of each member are not over 300 francs per annum; with the Trappists at Devielle this is the maximum .-- If the value of the useful labor performed by these 160,000 monks and nuns be estimated at 1000 francs per head, which is below the real figures, the total is 160 millions per annum; estimate the expenses of each monk or nun at 500 francs per head and the total is 80 millions a year.
The net gain to the public is 80 millions per annum.] [Footnote 5315: "La Charite a Nancy," by Abbe Girard, p.
245 .-- The same judgment is confirmed by the Rev.T.W.Allies, in a "Journal d'un voyage en France," 1848, p.291.
"The dogma of the real presence is the centre of the whole religious life of the Church (Catholic): it is the secret support of the priest in his mission, so painful and so filled with abnegation.
It is by this that the religious orders are maintained."] [Footnote 5316: This question is examined by St.Thomas in his Summa Theologica.] [Footnote 5317: For the past twenty years, owing to the researches of psychologists and physiologists, we have begun to know something of the subterranean regions of the mind and the latent processes taking place there.
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