"Why live,
Except for love — how love, unless they know?"'

asks the Pope. "nVIoral progress is not secured
apart from, or in spite of knowledge. We are
not exhorted to reject the verdict of the latter as

^ Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day.
' The Ring- and the Book — The Pope, 1327, 1328.
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illusive, in order to confide in a faith which not
only fails to receive support from the defective
intelligence, but maintains its own integrity only
by repudiating the testimony of the reason. In
the distinction between knowledge as means and
love as end, it is easy, indeed, to detect a tendency
to degrade the former into a mere temporary
expedient, whereby moral ends may be served.
