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...All in all, his volume is one any American may read with both enjoyment and profit...

...The burden of Father Yorke's message was that teaching is an art as well as a science, that art is a personal possession, that artists have founded schools which keep alive their spirit, and that in the same way the great educational orders of the Church have their spirit, their art, their principles of educating...

...It is upon the wisdom of God that "all forms of order depend...

...A faculty is better than a curriculum, and these great founders supplied the faculty for innumerable Catholic schools...

...Christian Doctrine and good example hardly constitute an educational program in the ordinary meaning of the term...

...It should be added that a choice selection of illustrations enhances the value of the book as a manual for thestudent or the general reader...

...but we cannot discover anything not included in this totality of actual fact, and yet explanatory of it...

...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...

...the saints were enlisted in the controversy: Catherine of Siena and Birgitta of Sweden against, and Vincent Ferrer for the Spanish claimant...

...Both conceived the idea of new orders different from those existing, freer in movement and exempt from many traditional practices...

...In the few days which remained before election, Blaine made desperate efforts to explain and apologize, but 'Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,' rolled on to his undoing...

...Sheen—God and Intelligence...

...Four brief, but carefully written and colorful chapters, beginning with a picture of "aboriginal America...

...One suspects the Cult of Beauty—an unconscious tendency to flee depressing, in pursuit of exalting, thoughts...

...A Catholic could borrow it, with the chapter called after the Mass, almost literally for meditation...

...If you will not admit that I am Pope, you must admit that I am the only one with authority to name another Pope, and no legitimate Pope can be named without my consent, since I, beyond dispute, am the only legitimate cardinal...

...Even his humanity seems a forced note in his writing...

...The principle of causality must be understood as derived from the principle of contradiction through the principle of sufficient reason...

...What can be said of his book...

...sandwiched strangely with notes from the author's readings on a stubborn brave and unrelished Pope of disputed title—Benedict XIII, Don Pedro de Luna...

...in thinking that, that established as a form of localized social service in a general sense, it gradually became, long after her death, an educational institute...

...Thus Dr...

...New York: Longmans, Green and Company...

...The parallels between Loyola (1491-15 56) and Angela (1474-1540) are numerous and striking...

...Whitehead discusses...

...and early in the same century in France, Frances de Bremond began to formulate the first Ursuline Regulations...

...Religion in the Making applies this concept of metaphysics to the analysis of religion...

...Insistence upon personality is very welcome, and it was a happy thought to describe the growth of Angela Mend's ideal until it culminated in the teaching-idea of applying that ideal first to her order and then, through them, to the education of women...

...Angela wished an order almost akin to settlement workers today...

...BlascoIbanez for any edification...

...The present book contains four Lowell Lectures delivered by Professor Whitehead in King's Chapel, Boston, during February, 1926...

...Garrigou-Lagrange—Dieu Son Existence et Sa Nature...

...He is the realization of the ideal conceptual harmony by reason of which there is an actual process in the total universe—an evolving world which is actual because there is order...

...The story of his schism peters down to obscure and miserable conclusions...

...Herein the author's metaphysical efforts show their weakness...

...THE compression of American history into a single volume is not an easy task and implies that omission of secondary facts which the author frankly confesses in his preface...

...they imparted their spirit to an organization and when the need of the times demanded teachers, the Church had them at hand...

...The villagers about his castle did not learn for months on just what day he had died of his sheer old age...

...To refute Dr...

...Doubtless, also, the book suffers from the kaleidoscopic treatment, because of which characters sometimes become confused and threads of action are cut off and left dangling...

...Whitehead's metaphysics, instead of leading to something objective and permanent in religion, loses us in the darkness of religious scepticism...

...Professor Van der Smissen's book, moreover, is a complete Faust...

...Many of the great lyrical passages become exceedingly prosy in their English dress...

...The flexibility of their institutes implicitly contained the development afterward perfected...

...Gracefully, even sprightly, the style bears its burden and it is no contemptible feat to skip lightly along balancing a dozen volumes of encyclopaedias on each hand...

...Eight chapters cover men and events from the Revolution to the War of 1812...

...On the latter's death, he was himself elected Pope under the title of Benedict XIII, giving forth the impression that he would further the reunion of Christendom by resigning when an understanding could be established with the Roman claimants of the see...

...Thus will be discovered the stable order which Dr...

...And since the election of Popes rests with the cardinals, I, the one authentic, the one unquestionable cardinal, am the only one with power to designate a legitimate Pope...

...The poet meets properly and sincerely the problem of how much he ought to tell of those dangerous groping days, for he tells the unadorned truth, with the clear purpose of making known only its spiritual significance, and never its carnal or scandalous nuances...

...His element leads him after wars, stormy seas, violences of heart and hand...

...a land of wild beauty," take us, in forty-nine pages, to that assault on American liberty at Concord which marks the beginning of the American people as well as that of the War of Independence...

...Thomas Walsh...

...and a social world which generally reeks of the rastaquouere...

...We may pass over his hostilities which have won him few friends in the Church and state of his native country...

...Values of a faith Catholic in spirit though not in communion are assayed...

...The principle of contradiction itself is grasped by the operation of intelligence whose object is "being," the ground of all sound metaphysics...

...Noting the futility of "writing history which only historians read," the author stresses the dramatic high moments and the outstanding personalities of his story's processional of development in a straightforward, natural, and interesting way...

...they selected and gave to the world a body of subjects...

...He follows a logical scheme...

...In 1375 he was created cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Cosmedin by Gregory XI and took part in the conclave, stormed by the Romans, which elected Urban VI, whose validity he later denied, to espouse the cause of Clement VII of Avignon...

...Both strove earnestly to avoid becoming leaders of their orders...

...Whitehead is most unstable because it does not reach down to those fundamental notions which alone will be ultimate and permanent...

...Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing Company...

...If, occasionally, the author is guilty of sins of omission as for example (page 469) where the growth of the colleges since the world war is discussed, the great Catholic universities are entirely ignored among those mentioned, it must in part be laid to the selective and compressional program to which he was committed...

...New York: Boni and Liveright...

...Whitehead does not propose to formulate an exact and scientific religious world-view...

...Because Rome "or" Canterbury each has values of beauty, one cannot hover lovingly over both on the wings of the intellectual compromise that "precise definitions" must be avoided...

...The Mass, for example, is examined as worship, prayer, sacrifice, as the Eucharist, as a memorial, and in historic association...

...The second feature of Angela's teaching idea, the maternal spirit, would almost seem a corollary of the first...

...In addition to all of the text, there is a succinct but very able commentary in which the conclusions of modern German criticism are summarized...

...The facts of her credentials, once faced, compensate respectability for that inevitable slight disreputability which marks the Church universal, and console even artistic sensibilities for ritualistic bad form...

...Robert Patterson...

...Whitehead "the nature of God is the complete conceptual realization of the realm of ideal forms...

...When he was eighty years old, a miserable and emaciated person, he spoke for seven hours in Latin before an assembly of emperors, princes, ambassadors, and scholars...

...These will prove much more convincing and illuminating than Cardinal Mercier's abridged volume...

...They were almost of the same age at death and were living contemporaries for fifty years...

...The title is apt...

...The author's aim "to direct attention to the foundation of religion on our apprehension of those permanent elements by reason of which there is a stable order in the world," might have been attained had he regarded metaphysics as the science which sees the principles of contradiction, sufficient reason, and causality functioning in terms of being...

...Values of Catholic Faith, by Reverend Latta Griswold, M.A...

...Besides other similarities, which could easily be adduced, in education, too, their careers were similar...

...Religion in the Making shows that there is a tendency among some modern philosophers to look toward metaphysics for its contribution toward a true world and life outlook...

...A dogma 471 in the sense of a precise statement can never be final...

...5-00...

...3.00...

...It is interesting to note that Father De la Cloriviere at the French Revolution founded an order living out of cloister and wearing no distinctive garb...

...When he comes to rationalized religions, among which are Christianity and Buddhism—both now in a state of decay—he proposes this definition: "Rational religion is religion whose beliefs and rituals have been reorganized with the aim of making it the central element in a coherent ordering of life—an ordering which shall be coherent both in respect to the elucidation of thought and in respect to the direction of conduct toward a unified purpose commanding ethical approval...

...Griswold says there is no escape and into which his book nearly does...

...Even Ignatius of Loyola had no idea of schools at first...

...yet he writes clearly and with real ability and skill in laconizing the dramatic...

...Blasco-Ibanez sums up his address in these words: "You say that I am a Pope of doubtful legitimacy...

...Certain other principles which Angela exemplified are referred to...

...Olgiati-Zybura—The Key to the Study of Saint Thomas...

...These are surmounted with competence, although one vainly tries to hit upon a passage characterized by genius...

...He revealed a great genius for diplomacy and a singleness of purpose joined to a blameless moral character that held for him the powers of France, Scotland, Castile and Aragon which, in time, were to be denied him...

...He never accepted the au470 thority of the Council that deprived him of the Papacy, although his faithful adherent, Saint Vincent Ferrer, had mounted the pulpit and called upon him for the sake of the unity of the Church to resign the tiara...

...Using the principle of causality, ratiocination, as distinguished from intellection, will lead to a correct knowledge of God, man and the world with their proper interrelations...

...The confusion of aesthetic with spiritual values is found too, an example of which serves also to warn against implied definitions...

...Apart from these forms no rational description can be given either of the God or of the actual world...

...Ambrose Farley...

...Thanks to Father Yorke and to Dr...

...and one not familiar with German would seek in vain for that supreme competency in Atticizing modern diction which was one of the predominant virtues of Goethe...

...Tradition was too strong for the first Ursulines and not until Saint Vincent de Paul was there a partial realization of Angela's first idea through his Sisters of Charity...

...Yet careful selection and rejection of the incidental and less important is the only method which would have made it possible to tell the story of the American people in one continuously readable narrative...

...Blasco-Ibanez has evidently followed with supreme gusto this entangled scandal of the anti-Popes, and if one is on guard in facing his interpretations and his findings, for he gives no authorities for much of his interesting detail, one finds a fascinating account, given with all a Spaniard's sympathy for a fellow-exile, of a remarkable personality...

...and a century later, in 1727, they came from the same country to New Orleans...

...but when one considers the fact that no good version of the drama into English is available, that Bayard Taylor's famous edition is quite out of date, and that German is not a language widely familiar to Americans, it becomes apparent that Professor Van der Smissen, of the University of Toronto, confronted a great task and a magnificent opportunity...

...With so much subjectivism in modern religious philosophies, it is indeed encouraging to read a book in which "objectivity," "permanent elements," "stable order," etc., are applied to the world and religion in the world...

...The period is not a very edifying one for pious folk, but it would be too much to ask Mr...

...The Divine Office, with its ancient flavor, yet living and fresh through seasonal adjustment to the Christian year, is finely analyzed...

...God is "the binding element in the world...

...his heroes are the irregulars of life, the hospital types of humanity, the tragic morbidities and horrors of the Greek dramatists...

...He is not the world, but the valuation of the world...

...his instruments are the trumpets, cornets and saxophones, the gigantic calliope-organs of the "movie" temples...

...To you I would say," declared Father Yorke, addressing Catholic teachers, "if you would succeed, enter into the spirit of your holy founders, study their lives and their ways, understand 472 their aims, and with proper allowance for time and circumstance, conform yourselves to their methods...

...The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Blood and Sand, Mare Nostrum, and The Shadow of the Cathedral are in their mere names placards that reveal the great journalist that is in this Hispanic author...

...i.$o...

...God and the world are, therefore, linked by forms, abstract and not real...

...While we cannot agree with the author that "to be an actual thing is to be limited" and that God is not infinite in all respects, we freely admit that Dr...

...Renaissance Italy is the motley, bewildering background upon which grows Angela's teaching idea...

...Without a definite understanding of man's nature in God's plan, how can a correct religious philosophy be developed...

...In particular, he should be commended for his lack of bias...

...Pastor the biographer cites a rule of Angela's enjoining the teaching of Christian Doctrine and gives her injunction to inspire good conduct...

...Francis P. Donnelly...

...The message which could carry an author through 500 royal octave pages, through scores of quoted authorities in all languages, through painting and architecture, the message which gives to the Ursulines and to the Church and to scholars so creditable a work solidly documented in every statement, is a message deserving perpetual remembrance...

...Nor is historic truth made subservient to the "romance" and "glamour" Professor Wertenbaker wishes to bring out in his story of the national evolution of the nonaboriginal American...

...It covers the poet's penniless years in pre-war Greenwich Village, in a chaotic but electrically fascinating manner, and if one is forced to admit that More Miles does not complete the spiritual progress which the first part of the book promised, one must at the same time point out that in the cause of this seeming failure, which is the author's uncompromising biographical attitude toward himself, his art, and his environment, lies the book's finest quality...

...Pedro de Luna was born in Aragon in 1328 of a noble family, and studied at Montpellier where he later became professor of canon law...

...The order is still thriving...

...they trained these future teachers, imparting to them religious motives and fostering in them a religious character...

...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...

...Joan of Arc was accused of having associated herself with the schemes of a cardinal of Saint Stephen, one of Benedict's creations who ended his life stubborn under excommunication at Foix...

...The book is more subjective than its particular concept warrants...

...Sister Monica had not a large amount of direct biographical detail for her work, but she has enriched the slender rills with immense historical and antiquarian erudition...

...Whitehead very arbitrarily traces the history of religion through four successive stages: the ritualistic, emotional, mythical, and rationalistic...

...But before I was Pope I was cardinal, and a cardinal of unquestioned status in the holy Church of God...

...John S. Middleton...

...The Pope of the Sea, he tells us, is an historical medley and it shows some strange elements: the rather vulgar outline of an affair de voyage between an Argentine widow of wealth...

...The reasoning of Dr...

...Granted that I am not the legitimate Pope, I am at least the only legitimate cardinal...

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...Certain unfortunate but necessary minor compromises there are, such as the colorless pseudonyms which Kemp is compelled to tack to his characters from the very nature of the private matters he reveals...

...We should like to have, however, more definite statements on God as the one, necessary Personal Being...

...There the author insisted that "there can be no living science unless there is a wide-spread instinctive conviction in the existence of an order of things and, in particular, an order of nature...

...Sister M. Monica, Ph.D., of the Brown County Ursulines, Saint Martin, Ohio, fell under the inspiring spell of Father Yorke's words, and her dream "of gathering out of Italian and French sources, the lore that existed concerning Angela Merici and of setting it into some sort of approachable shape in English" has become a fine reality...

...One feels that the author has indeed traveled many miles, and that, though the strange soul of this volume climbs chiefly in his dreams, the one that has now emerged from the clouds to write this book gazes back from a considerable height...

...Four chapters are devoted to the causes of the Civil War, the struggle itself, recon473 struction—with graphic scenes of carpet-bagging days and a black legislature in session in South Carolina—and the changeing order resulting from the second industrial climax of development, with consolidation and large-scale production as new ideals (?) in American business and life...

...Dogmatic truths are helpful though "you cannot claim absolute finality for a dogma without claiming a commensurate finality for the sphere of thought within which it arose...

...ANEW translation of Faust would not seem a startling event...

...To estimate correctly anyone's philosophy of religion, it is, of course, vitally necessary to understand clearly his conceptions of God and man, the terms of the religious relationship...

...The Comtesse Girelli, who died in 1919, revived the idea in its primitive form, but we are not told of the results of this revival...

...Catholics would nearly reverse the description of the Mass as a ritual where "symbolism almost becomes ineffable mystery...

...Whitehead's concept of God's nature is very satisfactory and that he almost formulates Saint Thomas's definition of the eternal law, as the plan of divine wisdom which directs all things to their due ends...

...and one on the New England industrial revolution introduces the rise of the New West, the passing of the Virginia dynasty of Presidents, and those conflicts of territorial expansion at the expense of Mexico which, despite the chapterheading of Manifest Destiny given Professor Wertenbaker's account, had no ethical justification...

...And it is indicative of Kemp's character that in looking back upon the eccentric group he knew, there is only one person at whom he aims occasional angry or ridiculing thrusts: himself...

...It avoids apologetics, and—allowing for the Anglican bias— is sound in conception: Religion is the cure of world sickness...

...May I suggest as far more enlightening the following excellent treatises: Maritain—Reflexions sur l'Intelligence...

...Even a little knowledge of scholastic metaphysics with its application to scientific religion demonstrates that the most practical thing in the world is sound theory...

...Pastor's exact statement is not quoted, but the words cited by Sister Monica do not seem sufficient to show that Angela contemplated the erecting of schools...

...apologetics nowadays is futile, and authority despised save by those who do not need it...

...But with these reservations, it is a brave book, pervaded with the inscrutable elfinwarrior personality of a poet of the highest—and in these days, rarest-—artistic ideals...

...He [God] transcends the temporal world...

...But the metaphysics of Dr...

...Objective choice, since it banishes alternatives, is damnably depressing at times...

...They contributed mightily to education...

...If, as you say, all the Popes elected since the schism are of doubtful legitimacy, of a legitimacy equally doubtful must be the cardinals they have named...

...Catholics who would keep in touch with the Anglican mind will also find the book most valuable, and will recognize the typical inconsistency of the author's hope of "enlarging the conception" of the Church while he admits "there is no escape from Rome, Canterbury, or Constantinople into an ideal Catholicism...

...and the greatest value of the book for him—it more than puzzles his mind: it rebukes his prejudices while it renews his hopes—is to realize that, although the trunk to which he clings alone can bear fruit of dogmatic truth, since it alone is rooted in reality, there remains sap of faith in the errant branch that bears blossoms a Catholic may cull with delight for a veritable spiritual bouquet...

...The Church practical should be a trifle vulgar, full of healthy Philistines who jostle the aesthete as they banally admire the prosaic—and profound— values of the matter-of-fact...

...5.00...

...We are, however, surprised at his conclusions on the nature of God...

...Let us grant that I am...

...by considering the world, we can find all the factors required by the total metaphysical situation...

...Both Loyola and Angela deserve no less credit because they did not foresee in detail the immense development of their work...

...Harry McGuire...

...If Sisters are not to live in a cloistered convent, they must live in their family, and they must have more of the maternal spirit than in institutions where division of labor keeps most of them from the intimacy and personal contact of a mother in a home...

...Saint Angela's Sisters came from France to Quebec in 1639, a century after her death...

...Embassies passed between him and the Roman Popes...

...The first Jesuit Plan of Studies for the whole order was officially promulgated at the beginning of the seventeenth century...

...James G. Blaine's loss of the Presidency owing to his lack of courage to resent an insult offered the Catholic faith as he stood on the stairway of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel (October 29, 1884) for example, is well summarized: ". . . every Catholic voter in the state knew that the Republican candidate had permitted a slur against his religion to go unrebuked...

...we may excuse some inborn crudities of taste and some strange lack of dignity in this Spaniard who has, more or less forcedly, become a citizen in a world made up of radios, cables, moving-pictures and three-ring circuses...

...Conditions in Mexico make that country an apt place for this idea...

...But, after all, Dr...

...and Benedict XIII hearing of his deposition afar in his family castle of Peniscola, near Valencia, Spain...

...and in his mental mirror, no doubt he beholds himself as a giant composite of the Archpriest of Hita, Nietzsche, Galdos, and Victor Hugo...

...I am tHe only one legitimately empowered to apply such remedies as may be essential for the present evils of the Church...

...It is a sequel to the same author's book entitled Science and the Modern World, wherein the basis of metaphysics is defined as "reasonable harmony...

...the ideal of Jesus embodied in His Church is discussed under headings of the symbols He Himself used, as A Net, A Leaven, A Pearl of Great Price, as The Bride and as The Body of Christ...

...The dignity of the Church, and my own dignity, demand that I insist on this...

...Saint Vincent Ferrer anathematized the headstrongness of Pedro de Luna whose belief in himself seems to have been honest if selfish, and the saint's prophecy, later to be fulfilled, was that "in punishment for his pride, the street urchins will play at ball with his head...

...Yet one must choose which institution corresponds in reality to that ideal Catholicism into which Mr...

...From A Nation Moving West to the chapter on Problems: Solved and Unsolved, sketches—and seventy-five pages can do no more than sketch—the salient features of our national history from the driving of the last golden spike in the last tie laid on the Pacific railroad, to America and the American of today...

...It says what the original says, the translator having studiously avoided melodious but inexact paraphrase...

...Goethe's Faust, translated and edited by W. H. Van der Smissen...

...Neither wished a distinctive habit for their orders...

...The end of this obstinate career at the age of ninety-five, found Pope Benedict in full possession of his senses...

...Both made pilgrimages to Palestine...

...For Dr...

...Religion in the Making, by Alfred North Whitehead...

...474 The chapter, The Kingdom of God, discovers the rarest values...

...Whitehead on the nature of man is exceedingly unsatisfactory...

...Its author is no stylist...

...The author begins with a wrong principle when he states that "any proof which commences with the consideration of the character of the actual world cannot rise above the actuality of the world...

...Griswold's effort "to catch and crystallize the more subtle and fluid causes of the appeal" of the Church succeeds, not a little because of a style which is, to borrow his metaphor, crystalline in its lucidness and beauty...

...Education is becoming more and more scientific in content and method...

...More Miles, by Harry Kemp...

...I am the only one who was present at the conclave where the schism arose...

...Frederick H. Martens...

...The author refers to Cardinal Mercier's Manual of Scholastic Philosophy...

...The chapters telling of the endeavors to realize the first features are the most interesting in the book for the reviewer...

...The American People: A History, by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker...

...Apart from God there would be no actual world...

...The American People is a genuinely well-done popularization of its subject...

...Sertillanges—L»'Intelleetualisme de Saint Thomas...

...The prominent features of her ideal were the founding of an undoistered order, the maternal spirit, and instruction in Christian Doctrine...

...But the vigor of his claims was to suffer no abatement, for a few days before his death he created four cardinals so that there might be no interruption, he claimed, in the chain of pontiffs legitimately descending from Saint Peter...

...One closes his book reflecting that facts too, though stubborn things, have a value of beauty—the mystical value of truth...

...Ludwig Pastor is mistaken," says Sister Monica, "in thinking that education was not the kernel of Angela's institute...

...THIS book will rank high in that non-controversial class which is doing good toward steering persons with open minds but no very fixed beliefs, in the Catholic direction...

...But the book deserves exemption from controversial criticism...

...The biographer did well to point out such features, but they are too few and too indefinite to make Saint Angela an educator as we now understand the term...

...therefore to portray religion in terms of personal experience becomes important...

...In the face of his undoubted powers as a constructionist it would be hardly wise to look for delicacy, sympathetic qualities, or fine touches of art...

...I am, further, the only one truly cognizant of the questions of legitimacy involved in this schism...

...With this part of the book any student may well be satisfied, provided he is seeking to familiarize himself only with the general, elemental problems raised by the text...

...WHATEVER utter frankness about himself—even the merciless exposing of his conceits and poses—can reveal of a man, Harry Kemp has laid bare in More Miles, which continues the autobiography which Tramping on Life began...

...But on the whole the text is faithfully rendered...

...Gregory discreetly sending his abdication from his castle in Viterbo...

...The Church will be enriched, if not in values, at least in capacity to appreciate them, if ever the severed limb is grafted again, by submission, to the parent stem...

...The Creed is surveyed as the irreversible statement of Revelation, implying all dogmatic truth, coordinating all human knowledge...

...Sister Monica gives a satisfactory and thorough account of Angela's maternal spirit and shows its detailed application...

...The climax came at the Council of Constance, where the various rivals were convened, and John XXIII saw wisdom in a sudden escape...

...Truth is a common, not a cultural thing...

...Well, the version attempts fidelity to the original metres—which means difficulties...

...About the third feature, instruction in Christian Doctrine, there is room for discussion...

...IT IS refreshing to realize that some non-scholastic philosophers are investigating the metaphysical aspects of religion...

...Angela Merici and Her Teaching Idea, by Sister M. Monica...

...the usual young Spanish hero with the scent of boarding-houses and municipal colleges about him...

...Monica, the Ursulines of America can now imbibe the spirit of Saint Angela Merici, their founder, not from remote sources, but at its very fountainhead...

...FATHER YORKE of San Francisco was by vigorous style and still more by vigorous personality an inspirer...

...In Angela Merici and Her Teaching Idea, Father Yorke has a worthy memorial, which, were he living, he would be proud to have cheered on to completion...

...Both had extraordinary powers of winning friends and making followers...

...He admits the existence of material and spiritual worlds but remains neutral on the existence of purely spiritual beings other than God, and on the question of immortality...

...he is the literary ogre, the publishers' superman...

...These foundations with their offshoots and many other Ursuline schools have brought to North America the blessings of Angela's teaching idea, and Sister Monica's able volume will be a monument to commemorate their services and to inspire wider and more fruitful endeavor...

...This seems rather accurate but our approbation is checked by his designation of religion as standing between "abstract metaphysics" and "the particular principles applying to only some among the experiences of life," instead of describing religion as based ultimately on abstract metaphysical principles and informing every phase of life...

...Sometimes they are in a way parallel to features widely heralded as discoveries by modern educators...