On the other hand, the treasures of Catholicity for the inner life were hidden from him.

Religion, in his conception of it--in the true conception of it--must be the binding of all things together, natural and supernatural.

Hence we find him at times complaining that the Church is not sufficient for _his wants._ If it were not personal in its adaptation to him, it was little that it should be historical this, hierarchical that, or biblical the other.

It must be his primarily, because he cannot live a rational and pure life without it.

An ordinarily decorous life, if you will; free from lust or passion, and without gross unreason, but nevertheless tame, unprogressive, dry and unproductive, without any absolute certainty except that of the helplessness of man.