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

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1859

pg 355       society, but he tried to justify his withdrawal--like all those 
             that look back with regret to the onions of Egypt, by speaking 
             badly even of those twelve or thirteen years before had with the 
             fruit of their sweat and fatigues; and as a natural consequence of 
             an unsettled and strange character, speaking in turns of the same 
             society, well or ill according to the whim of the moment; without 
             real malice, but without any fixed principle of justice or of 
             truth.
                  In the opinion of the community he did no injury to the house 
             by leaving it, but was rather doing it a service.  But the world 
             was not likely to understand the peace that he was leaving to his 
             associates when he took himself away from amongst them.  He had 
             even a certain influence on the mind of another Father who was at 
             the time superior of an important house in Chicago; and if he did 
             not directly shake his vocation, he at least contributed much to 
             make it unsteady, and thus to ruin totally that foundation, which