Excerpt from The Friar Preacher: Yesterday and to-Day The Dominican Order. Pere Jacquin writes as an historian, and he has made full use of the writings of such men as the Blessed Humbert de Romans and Pere Mamachi, as also of the col lections of Quetif and Echard, and 'the more recent scholarly work of Pere Mandonet and Pere Mortier. After a preliminary chapter on the work actually accomplished by St. Dominic, the author passes to the definite organization of the Order. He then treats of the Dominican ideal and of the place occupied by the Order in the long series of religious bodies in the Church. He shows how the Friars Preachers were neither monks nor simply Canons Regular, but essentially Friars. The true object of the Order is theo logical doctrinal teaching, whether in the pulpit or in the Professor's chair. Pere Jacquin then sets forth the means to this end - namely, study quickened by prayer and directed by the various. 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.