The universities have, in this case, the picking and chusing of their members from all the churchmen of the country, who, in every country, constitute by far the most numerous class of men of letters.

在这种情况下，大学从全国所有的教士中挑选和挑选他们的成员，在每个国家，这些教士构成了迄今为止数量最多的文人阶层。