There is not that sense of heaviness, dulness, fleshliness, in me.

I experience no natural desires, no impure thoughts, nor wanderings of fancy.

Still, I feel more intensely, and am filled to overflowing with love, and with desire for union.

But there is no one to meet me where I am, and I cannot meet them where they are." All his life Father Hecker was on the lookout for the great human influences which run across those of religion, either to swell their volume or to lessen their force.

These are mainly the transmissions of heredity, and the environments that are racial, temporal, epochal, or local.