It is not more against the Articles to desire it than to desire Monachism.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
The institution of Monachism was one of considerable standing before the date at which we are now arrived, but it had never yet found any function of systematic usefulness.
"Anglo-Saxon Literature"
John Earle
Now the power of conversion is inherent only in sharply-defined doctrines; and it was precisely this tendency that penetrated the Northern natures: the sons of the Vikings became the champions of Monachism; to the fury with which the fathers had destroyed the monasteries succeeded in the sons a zeal to restore them.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke