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The contrast was very striking between the atmosphere of this unpretending refuge of the helpless and that of certain of the "laicised" hospitals of France, which I not long ago visited, from which the devoted nuns have been expelled to make way for hired nurses. I made a remark to this effect to the clerk of the Union, Mr. Lavan, whom we found in his office.
His belief that history had been cericalised, and required to be laicised, was regarded as peculiarly offensive in one who had been himself ordained. Mary Stuart, moreover, had stalwart champions beyond the border who were neither clerical nor ecclesiastical.
It is important to ask how far it had succeeded in achieving its objects. We have seen that it was a movement of essentially monastic conception aimed at the purification of the secular clergy. And we have seen that the evil to be remedied had arisen from the imminent danger that the Church would be laicised and feudalised.
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