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coo1.ark:-13960-t83j42037	Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.	Hermits,	1890.0		.txt	text/plain	94615	3829	76	Bishops and clergy, monks and Christian matrons (a great temptation), people of the common sort; great men, too, and judges crowded to him, to receive from him blessed bread or oil. This class of men sprang up rapidly, by natural causes, and yet by a Divine necessity, as soon as the Western Empire was conquered by the German tribes ; and those two young officers whom we saw turning monks at Treves, in the time of St. Augustine, may, if they lived to be old men, have given sage counsel again and again to fierce German knights and kinglets, who had dispossessed the rich and effeminate land- owners of their estates, and sold them, their wives, and THE HERMITS OF EUROPE.	cache/coo1.ark:-13960-t83j42037.txt	txt/coo1.ark:-13960-t83j42037.txt