Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1859

pg 353       Sorin did not hesitate to say at several chapters that if he saw 
             the demon with his own eyes, he would not believe more firmly in 
             his presence and his efforts to destroy the society.
                  The effects of those storms were first visible in the more 
             relaxed members of the Congregation, with whom the enemy had 
             greatest success.  He stirred up trouble, distrust, and the spirit 
             of party and of nationality amongst the Brothers.  The temptation 
             was evidently gaining ground.
                  Prudence fled from those that should have remedied the evil; 
             a blindness heretofore unknown seemed, at least for a time, to 
             have fallen upon even those that had never before comprised 
             themselves; falsehood fell from lips that had never before been 
             suspected; multiplied and ruinous negligences were of daily 
             occurrence even amongst members of the Chapter; all suffered, even 
             where you would in vain seek a reasonable cause.  The college 
             table was sometimes neglected in a manner that was the height of 
             folly.  The acting steward declared that there was nothing to be