His wife I have understood to be a very religious woman.

They are heathens in thought, and profess to be so.

They have no conception of the Church: out of Protestantism they are almost perfectly ignorant.

They are the narrowest of men, yet they think they are extremely 'many-sided'; and, forsooth, do not comprehend Christendom, and reject it.

The Catholic accepts all the good they offer him and finds it comparatively little compared to that which he has." That he recognized that the test of the character of his inner experiences, for good or ill, was to be finally found in what they led him to, is shown by the following passage, already quoted, from the diary: "What I do I must do, for it is not I that do it; it is the Spirit.