She absorbs forty-one millions of the revenue, which is enormous in a country which only devotes nine millions to schools and teaching, and one million to the relief of the poor.

To maintain an intercourse with God costs a Spaniard five times as much as to learn to read.

But this forty-one millions is a blind.

My own poverty made me inquisitive, and I wished to know what the clergy in Spain really receive, and what comes to our hands, the rank and file.

The demands and pensions of the Church are an intricate tangle, apart from the forty-one millions.