He must cease being himself and must lose, it may be said, his personality."-- Ibid., preface, XIX.

"Both of us, placed in remotes country parishes,...

are in a position to know the clergy of the second class well, to which, for twenty years, we belong."] [Footnote 5346: The principal means of action of the State is the right of appointing bishops.

The Pope, however, installs them; consequently, the Minister of Worship must have an understanding beforehand with the nuncio, which obliges it to nominate candidates irreproachable in doctrine and morals, but it avoids nominating ecclesiastics that are eminent, enterprising or energetic; once installed and not removable, they would cause trouble.

Such, for example, was M.Pie, bishop of Poitiers, nominated by M.de Falloux in the time of the Prince-President, and so annoying during the Empire; in order to keep him in check, M.Levert, the cleverest and most adroit prefect, had to be sent to Poitiers; for many years they waged the most desperate war under proper formalities, each playing against the other the shrewdest and most disagreeable tricks.