Excerpt from Thoughts and Memories How execrable is that wretch, who, knowing all the facts, would feed the body, but only on the con dition of stealing away the bread and wine of the soul! What a horrible fallacy to presume that a soup-school or a swimming-pool can supply moral strength or sweetness even to that ingenuous faith in the hearts of little children! Yet this is what these bloodless and broken sects Of Christendom, with their insincere sociologists, are vainly at tempting to do. Thousands Of dollars go out and gratify the venality of an army Of officials con sumed with the mixed passion of proselyting Italians and at the same time foraging for them selves. The horror of it is more patent when we remember what the rich glow of an authentic faith means to an Italian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.