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Excerpt from The National Quarterly Review, Vol. 8: December, 1863, and March, 1864
The works languished although the dungeons were still filled; the mortality was frightful; corruption became more general from day to day; irreligion more barefaced; insubordination more frequent, and sometimes going as far as insurrection and murder; the rules spit upon, monopoly at its apogee, and disorder endemic. It was finally suggested: 'let us try to induce the Brothers to take charge.' Their installation takes place; and the exasperation is at once mitigated, and the dark horizon begins to brighten. Application to labor soon dis pels indolence, and submission takes the place of revolt, punishments become rare, turpitude disappears, the numbers of deaths and diseases diminish, the spirit of piety progresses through the masses, silence reigns, intercourse is entirely prohibited, order is established, and the most scandalous house in the kingdom a pandemonium, which armed and brutal force failed to keep under restraint, is disciplined, subdued.
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