text:  Let us hear how so important a peculiarity is thought to operate by this acute observer:-- "We think without enumerating the too well-known inconveniences of their present state that if the priest is to advise the family it is good for him to know what a family is; that as a married man (or a widower which would be still better ) of a mature age and experience one who has loved and suffered and whom domestic affections have enlightened upon the mysteries of moral life which are not to be learned by guessing he would possess at the same time more affection and more wisdom