“That the prolonged abstinence which has been argued about has not been observed by the committee;
“That no supervision, therefore, having been established, and there having been no chance of establishing it, the proper thing was not to pause on the consideration of this fact, but to consider it as not having come up—
“The Academy follows its order of the day as far as concerns the question of the stigmatization and exstasy.”
Here is the order of the day proposed by M. Crocq:
“The Academy, considering—
“That the phenomena established about Louise Lateau are not beyond a physiological explanation;
“That those which are not established ought no longer to occupy our attention—
“Declares the discussion closed, and passes to the order of the day.”
The same resolutions, the small foundation for which, after the discourses which had been made, every impartial mind ought to recognize, were again brought up in the session of October 9.
M. Vleminckx, having induced the authors of the orders of the day to modify their wording in such a manner as to render them acceptable, M. Fossion proposed the following form, more soothing than its predecessors: