Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical Review, 1920, Vol. 63: A Monthly Publication for the Clergy Ery generally wedo not understate the importance of learning in our clergy. It finds enthusiastic eulogy every summer from retreat masters, and spiritual writers cover the subject in several generous chapters. One might quote from St. Thomas Aquinas to Cardinal Manning for confirma tion of this. Holy priests learned priests have been balanced and compared down the centuries. Our semin-aries, one may well suppose, have splendid courses in philosophy, theology, Holy Scriptures, and kindred studies. We have out grown the days When the demand for priests was so insistent that the time of training was necessarily brief and the work of preparation necessarily incomplete. Now our courses of study are more systematically plannedand more carefully carried through. They are supervised by men who have cer tain mastery over their subjects, whose range of vision goes beyond the narrow limits of a text-book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.