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to maintain cathedrals and not parishes. And, though the ultimate

purpose of both institutions i3 the same, the means employed are

— radically different. Misinformed enthusiasm in the last century per- mitted the confiscation of a large proportion of cathedral endowments, with the result that their attempts to fulfil their functions are now sorely restricted by straitened circumstances. There is not room here to discuss their particular function. But let us he aware of it.—Yours