| What Basil's rule was for Eastern monachism, St. Benedict's was for early Western monasticism. |
| It is also in Egypt, land of great spirituality, that a particular shape of religious life was born: monachism. |
| Of the later days of monachism it is not so pleasant to write. |
| The spirit of monachism is as distinguishable as if the cowled ghosts of the victims were actually seen flitting along the aisles. |
| The subsequent history of Greek monachism has little interest. |
| Joachim does not conceal his sympathies with the ideal of Basilian monachism. |
