In place of
the solemn chants of the Church, ballroom ditties are taken and twisted, and adapted to the sacred words by some make - shift dabbler in the science of harmony, without art and in most cases without even intelligence.
«I would suggest that an almost subliminal reception
of the Hebrew Bible, through the
chanting of the Psalms and through the
solemn injunctions
of the bishop in connection with the episcopalis audientia, came to offer a meaning to the word pauper very different from the «pauperized» image
of the merely «economic» poor.