France -- Civilization; France -- Politics and government; France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
[Footnote 5314: Émile 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 Charité à Nancy," by Abbé 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. The storing, the residue and unconscious combination of images,
the spontaneous and automatic transformation of images into sensations,
the composition, disassociations and splitting into dual personalities
of the ego, the alternate or simultaneous coexistence of two, or more
than two, distinct persons in the same individual, the suggestions
accomplished later and at fixed dates, the chock of the return from
the inside to the outside, and the physical effect on the nervous
extremities of the mental sensations, all these late discoveries have
resulted in a new conception of mind, and psychology, thus renewed,
throws a sharp light on history.]
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