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Excerpt from The Status of Women in New England and New France
It is difficult for Protestants, or for any heretics living amidst the distractions of every-day life, to understand or properly value the state of mind, which is engendered by such intense continuous mental direction of thought and emotion, as women and men of high intellectual culture and acute imagi nation, like Mere Marie or Saint Francis d'asissi, concentrate on the sufferings of Christ. _roman Catholic authorities have found it difficult to draw the line between heretical quietism and orthodox mysticism. The personality, associations and the in?uence bearing on the individual under discussion must often have had a bearing on the decision as to his or her devia tion from strict orthodoxy. And such personal considerations may have tended to confer on Mere Marie the well-deserved veneration of her contemporaries and of posterity, despite her eccentricities, which certainly verged dangerously on quietism.
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