...but the attempt had never become general, was never followed up. This was the great revolution whicb Saint Benedict made in the monastic institution ;...missionaries and laborers, they accomplished their two- fold task, often attended with as much danger as fatigue. This is how Saint Benedict regulated...

...made in the monastic institution ; he especially introduced manual and agricultural labor into it. Tho Benedictine monks were the agriculturists of Europe ; they cleared it on a large scdfe, associating agriculture with « preaching. A colony, a swarm of monks, not very numerous at...

...cleared away forests. By them Germany was rendered a fruitful country". M. Guizot speaks as strongly: " The Benedictine monks were the agriculturists of Europe;...large scale, associating agriculture with preaching". 13 St. Benedict's direct object in setting his monks to ces in " manual labour, was neither social...

...cleared away forests. By them Germany was rendered a fruitful country". M. Guizot speaks as strongly : " The Benedictine monks were the agriculturists of Europe...it on a large scale, associating agriculture with preaching".13 St. Benedict's direct object in setting his monks to ^ jn manual labour, was neither...

...vindicated the honour and the independence of the country, the monks added to its material wealth. They cleared it on a large scale, associating agriculture with preaching. A colony or swarm of monks, not very numerous, at first, transported themselves into uncultivated places ; and...

...Benedict made in the monastic institution; he especially introduced manual and agricultural labour into it. The Benedictine monks were the agriculturists of Europe; they cleared it on a lai'ge scale, associating agriculture with preaching. A colony, a swarm of monks, not very numerous...

...cleared away forests. By them Germany was rendered a fruitful country." M. Guizot speaks as strongly: "The Benedictine monks were the agriculturists of...large scale, associating agriculture with preaching." * * Hallam, Middle Ages, vol. iii., p. 436. Forsyth, Antiqu., vol. i., pp. 37, 44, 179. Turner, Anglo-Sax.,...

...William of Jumiege using the words monk and agriculturist as though they were synonymous. Guizot says " The Benedictine monks were the agriculturists of Europe...large scale, associating agriculture with preaching." Hallam tells us we owe the restoration of a great part of Europe to the monks, and how if the monasteries...

...held under its authority gave freedom and safety to trade." "The Benedictine monks," says M. Guizot, " were the agriculturists of Europe ; they cleared it...large scale, associating agriculture with preaching." " We owe the agricultural restoration of the great part of Europe to the monks," says Mr. Hallam. "...

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