It is since that day that English-speaking Catholics have had access to the great authorities on this subject through adequate translations.

But what little he had learned from other sources, combined with his own intuitional and experimental knowledge of human capabilities for penetrating the veil, had already furnished him with conclusions which nothing in his devoted study of Catholic mystical writers forced him to lay aside: "Belief in the special guidance of God has been the faith of all deeply religious men.

I will not dispute the fact that some men are so guided, but will offer an explanation of it which seems to me to reconcile it with the regular order of laws established by God.

My explanation would be that this guidance is not a miraculous power, specially bestowed upon some men, but merely a higher degree of ordinary divine guidance.

Our ordinary life is inspired; the other is only a higher degree of what is common to all.