But in Torquemada's time there was at least a system that could to some extent make righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Now they do not even bow.

But a much stronger case than these two of truth and pity can be found in the remarkable case of the dislocation of humility.
It is only with one aspect of humility that we are here concerned.
Humility was largely meant as a restraint upon the arrogance and infinity of the appetite of man.

He was always out-stripping his mercies with his own newly invented needs.

His very power of enjoyment destroyed half his joys.