Indeed I regard him as the Erasmus of modernism, one so sure of truth that he would trust time to work for his ideas, would avoid fighting altogether, but certainly all fighting that is in the least degree premature.

The two thousand years of Christianity, he says somewhere, are no long period when we remind ourselves that God spent millions of years in moulding a bit of old red sandstone.
[Footnote 5: "I have often thought that the unquestionable inferiority of German literature about Platonism points to an inherent defect in the German mind."-- _The Philosophy of Plotinus_, p.

13] Meanwhile we have our cocksure little guides, some of whom say to us, "That is primitive, therefore it is good," and others, "This is up-to-date, therefore it is better." Not very wise persons any of them, I fear.
And again, writing of Catholic Modernism in France: We have given our reasons for rejecting the Modernist attempt at reconstruction.

In the first place, we do not feel that we are required by sane criticism to surrender nearly all that M.Loisy has surrendered.

We believe that the Kingdom of God which Christ preached was something much more than a platonic dream.