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 slums where hearts break in discontent, and souls are starved for lack of spiritual intelligence—such was not the poverty of Francis' dream. To use again his own manner of speech, this is poverty in slavery, degraded and dishonoured by the vice and selfishness of man. With a full heart would he have set himself to rescue his Ideal from her modern degradation and restore her to her place of honour upon the earth. Knight-errant as he was, he would not have rested until