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Franciscan life to the practical needs of a widespread organisation, because of the singular idealism in which the Order had its spiritual origin. A mongst religious orders the Franciscan was unique, because the verj reason of its existence was to open the way foi the life of perfect poverty and unworldly simplicity for which so many religious souls in thu Middle A ges were athirst. How to preserve thi; exalted idealism, whilst recognising the practical needs of a prosaic world in which the Friar must live and work, was the great problen which faced the Order in the latter days of St Francis. The difficulty was increased by ai active party amongst the Friars who sought tremould the Order upon conventional lines, wit but little regard to the primitive Francisca spirit and idealism. The contention whic thus began in the days of St. Francis, becam more acute after his death; it lasted throughou the thirteenth century and eventually resulte in the division of the Order into various families with separate jurisdictions. The Mirror of Perfection originated in th controversy and voices the opposition towan a line of development which many of the Fria:
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