No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures ar… - John Lancaster Spalding

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No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

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About John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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