His motive ideas were still visionary; he could not cope with conservatism and frigidity established in comfortable places of emolument.

It was necessary that he should learn the wisdom of compromise.

Accordingly he returned to Spain, and put himself to school.
Two years spent in preparatory studies at Barcelona, another period at Alcala, and another at Salamanca, introduced him to languages, grammar, philosophy, and theology.

This man of noble blood and vast ambition, past the age of thirty, sat with boys upon the common benches.

This self-consecrated saint imbibed the commonplaces of scholastic logic.