Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . , rather than with, his Church. In theinstruction for his first communion, certainpoints aroused his spirit of discussion, andinto the argument with the priest he pouredthe mass of his ill-digested philosophicalreading: the result was that he was refused the communion. It was not until his twenty-second year upon theoccasion of his brother Jeans ordination, that he rectified his posi-tion and became an active member of his church. Shortly afterward,the two brothers, having inherited jointly La Chenaie from their uncle,retired there.
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . , rather than with, his Church. In theinstruction for his first communion, certainpoints aroused his spirit of discussion, andinto the argument with the priest he pouredthe mass of his ill-digested philosophicalreading: the result was that he was refused the communion. It was not until his twenty-second year upon theoccasion of his brother Jeans ordination, that he rectified his posi-tion and became an active member of his church. Shortly afterward,the two brothers, having inherited jointly La Chenaie from their uncle,retired there. From this retreat, two years later, 1807, appearedLamennaiss first literary essay: a <Guide Spirituel.* the translationof Louis de Bloiss tract the < Speculum Monacharum.^ The transla-tion, perfect in itself, is accompanied by a preface which in purespirituality of thought and expression equals, if it does not surpass,the original tract. Lamennais himself never afterwards surpassed was his next publication a year later, however, that sounds the. Lamennais 8846 LAMENNAIS true note, the war-cry of his genius,— his * Reflections upon the Stateof the Church during the Eighteenth Century and the Actual Situa-tion,*— a fierce arraignment of the despotism which held the Churchin a cringing position before the government. The book, publishedanonymously, was promptly suppressed by Napoleons police. Jean,now Vicar of St. Malo and director of the ecclesiastical seminarythere, withdrew his brother from La Chenaie, and gave him the posi-tion of professor of mathematics in the seminary, persuading himabout the same time to receive the tonsure. In collaboration thetwo brothers wrote * The Tradition of the Church on the Institution ofBishops.* The downfall of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bour-bons opportunely opening the way to Paris, Felicite went thitherwith the manuscript. The book came out, but it did not sell. Polemical by nature, the project of an ecclesiastical jo
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