Their science is good for nothing; they have no means or methods even for learning....

The Testament of Christ is what they are most ignorant of....

A priest who devotes himself to study is regarded either as a pure speculator unfit for the government, or with an ambition which nothing can satisfy, or again an odd, ill-humored, ill-balanced person; we live under the empire of this stupid prejudice,...

We have archeologists, assyriologists, geologists, philologists and other one-sided savants.

The philosophers, theologians, historians, and canonists have become rare."] [Footnote 5274: "Journal d'un voyage en France," by Th.