But if he comes to the Church through the working and the results of natural reason, it is light all the way, and to the very end.

I had this out with Cardinal Newman personally, and he agreed that I was right." It is true that his views were rectified when he entered the Church, and that when once in it he was ever acquiring new truth and new views of truth.

But his character never changed.

He was a luminous example of the truth of the saying that the child is father to the man, so often apparently falsified by experience.

Boy and man, the prominent characteristic of his mind was a clear perception of fundamentals and a disregard of non-essentials in the whole domain of life.