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By the mystic light of the windows, faithful reproductions of those of former centuries, the funerals of so many kings, the profanations of 1793, the restoration of the tombs, all this invades your thought and inspires you with a dim religious impression of devotion. These stones have their language. Lapides clamabunt. They speak amid the sepulchral silence. Listen to the echo of a far-away voice.
These recent dispositions of the Church's legislation reflect the stand the Church has always taken on this ground of higher education. Is She not "Mater universitatum?" Modern civilization owes its universities to the Catholic Church, as the very stones of Cambridge and Oxford still proclaim . . . lapides clamabunt!
"Is Gillespie here?" interrupted Hamilton, without the slightest recognition of the priest in his tones. "Pedes habent et non ambulabunt; non clamabunt in gutture suo," muttered the priest, finishing his verse; then to the men with a stiffness which I did not think Father Holland could ever assume "How often must I be disturbed by men seeking that young scoundrel?
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