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Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors Architects of the Order of St. Dominic, Vol. 1 of 2
This fact is so undeniable, that the enemies of the Mo nastic Institutions dare not gainsay it. The in?uences of monasticism are operating too sensibly and too bene ficially on society, to allow any one to doubt for a moment of their existence. Men and women of every grade, tired of vain pursuits, and sick of a world which has no anodyne for the soul's tribulations, yearn for that repose which cannot be found outside the Cloister, and for the universal revival of thatpblessed economy which provided an asylum for the repentant land contemplative, III times when sins and excesses were far less heinous and numerous, than they are in ours.
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