This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs.
Human meditation has no limits.

At his own risk and peril, it analyzes and digs deep into its own bedazzlement.

One might almost say, that by a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is probable that the contemplators are contemplated.

However that may be, there are on earth men who--are they men ?--perceive distinctly at the verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain.

Monseigneur Welcome was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius.