This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...which were swept 1896 COUNT ALBERT tE MUN away under the beneficent influence of Turgot and the Economises of last century. Alas! alas!" that way madness lies," and the best intentions can lead to no good. A wiser section of Catholic economists holds with Le Play and Perin, while some great employers of labour in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...which were swept 1896 COUNT ALBERT tE MUN away under the beneficent influence of Turgot and the Economises of last century. Alas! alas!" that way madness lies," and the best intentions can lead to no good. A wiser section of Catholic economists holds with Le Play and Perin, while some great employers of labour in France are trying, without setting before them unattainable ideals, to reconcile the modern conditions of labour with Catholic doctrine and practice. We make no doubt that any one who knew well the country districts of France at the present day could give us many charming pictures of the working of their religion in the life of the people of all ranks. Mr. Hamerton--by no means a clerical writer--had much to say in praise of many of the Cures in his neighbourhood, a few years ago, in his excellent book Round my House; but we know of no work which gives such a picture as is to be found in the Memoirs of Euginie de Guerin. It is much to be doubted whether the Catholic life of Paris is as worthy of admiration as it was. Writing in 1882, Mrs. Craven said: --"At times I feel wretchedly alone--not as all old women must from the gradual disappearance of their contemporaries, but in a quite different and new way. Madame Swetchine, though she was older than I am when she died, was to the last surrounded by younger friends, with whom she could entirely sympathise, the colour of whose thoughts was quite the same as hers. But that is just where the great change has taken place, and so I understand nobody, and nobody understands me." At the same time, when we are thinking of the religious state of Paris, we should not forget that the centenary of the Institute was inaugurated by the celebration of a mass for the souls of its deceased members-...
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