Or Felter:--your convinced and fervent Catholic has quotations of images and Latin hymns to his Madonna or one of his Catherines, by the dozen, to suit an enthusiastic fit of the worship of some fair woman, and elude the prosy in commending her.
Feltre is enviable there.

As he says, it is natural to worship, and only the Catholics can prostrate themselves with dignity.

That is matter for thought.

Stir us to the depths, it will be found that we are poor soupy stuff.

For estimable language, and the preservation of self-respect in prostration, we want ritual, ceremonial elevation of the visible object for the soul's adoring through the eye.