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youthful aspirants to the monastic life, living in a monastery, had more licence than they would have had in any college in England.

However, it is, perhaps, unprofitable to discuss an abnormal, rather than the normal, course of sacerdotal education. Ten years afterwards (two years ago) I was entrusted with the task of cleansing the Augean Stables, and the parting legacy I left to my colleagues was the solid foundation of a wiser and sounder system. But I pass on to my first acquaintance with the inner working of monastic life.