an order will be proportionate to its conformity with the spirit of its founders. Quantum … tantum. Only those institutions which have preserved their original spirit, or have found their way back to it, receive from God the power to produce saints worthy of being proposed by the Church to the worship of all the faithful. But when an order does not drink deeply enough at the source of living waters which sprang up out of the heart of God for its foundation, God may well give it brilliant scholars,