All that was necessary was contained in the Bible or taught by the Church.

This simple creed brought consolation to thousands and illumined the lives of some of the noblest of men.

But, "in seeking a heavenly home man lost his bearings upon earth." Let me commend for your reading Taylor's "Mediaeval Mind."(1) I cannot judge of its scholarship, which I am told by scholars is ripe and good, but I can judge of its usefulness for anyone who wishes to know the story of the mind of man in Europe at this period.

Into the content of mediaeval thought only a mystic can enter with full sympathy.

It was a needful change in the evolution of the race.