Chapter CXLV. In what manner the Saint would be shaven

193. When S. Francis was shaved he often said to the barber: "Take care not to make me a large tonsure. For I wish that my simple brethren may have a share in my head." 1 He wished, in a word, that the Religion should be open to the poor and unlettered and not only to the rich and learned. "With God," he said, "there is no acceptance of persons, and the Holy Ghost, the Minister-Genera¹ of the Religion, rests equally on the poor and simple." He wished to put these words into the Rule, but the sealing which had taken place² precluded it.