(Opinion of the archbishop of Aix, Ibid., p.

38.) "I know a lower seminary in which a class en quatrieme (8th grade US.) of 44 pupils furnished only 4 priests, 40 having dropped out on the way....

I have been informed that a large college in Paris, conducted by priests and containing 400 pupils, turned out in ten years but one of an ecclesiastical calling."-- "Moniteur," March, 14, 1865.

(Speech in the Senate by Cardinal Bonnechose.) "With us, discipline begins at an early age, first in the lower seminary and then in the upper seminary....

Other nations envy us our seminaries.
They have not succeeded in establishing any like them.