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Excerpt from Chronica Monasterii De Melsa, Vol. 1: A Fundatione Usque Ad Annum 1396, Auctore Thoma De Burton, Abbate; Accedit Continuatio Ad Annum 1406, a Monacho Quodam Ipsius Domus
Antiquarian research has done much to illustrate mat ters connected with conventual life; but the subject of monastic history, in all its bearings, has not been treated by any writer in our language. In the simple religious aspect, there is much to study in efforts, con tinned for many centuries, to elevate the human nature by painful exercises of self-mortification and bodily hard ships. For, though men entered monasteries from many motives, undoubtedly the vitality of monastic institu tions was due to a genuine aspiration after a certain Spirituality of being, aimed at by the extinction of the animal appetites and passions; and the persistence in this aim and the general sympathy it attracted are proved by the fact, that, as fast as existing orders of monks were found to have grown lax in their discipline and faithless to their rules, they were superseded by others of still loftier pretensions, originated by men Of genuine sanctity and sincerity of purpose. Surely, then, the whole results of these efforts deserve to be care fully worked out, not only as to success or failure in their highest objects, but as to the numerous political and social interests associated with them.
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