The heroisms of the early Jesuit missionaries reflected the strong courageous temper of St.
Ignatius.

The rich contemplative life of Carmel is a direct inheritance from St.Teresa's mystical experience.

The great Orders in their purity were families, inheriting and reproducing the salient qualities of their patriarch; who gave, as a father to his children, life stamped with his own characteristics.
Yet sooner or later after the withdrawal of its founder, the group appears to lose its spontaneous and enthusiastic character.

Zest fails.
Unless a fresh leader be forthcoming, it inevitably settles down again towards the general level of the herd.

Thence it can only be roused by means of "reforms" or "revivals," the arrival of new, vigorous leaders, and the formation of new enthusiastic groups: for the bulk of men as we know them cannot or will not make the costing effort needed for a first-hand participation in eternal life.