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 they are honest and sincere souls, and that their only fault is the diligent and objective study of certain problems which are fatally imposed upon every serious and balanced thinker in our day, and which present themselves under a quite new and unexpected aspect.

In short, your own call, "Restaurare omnia in Christo," unless it is content with being a rhetorical phrase shorn of all meaning, has forced us, as a matter of duty, to go out to meet these souls who are harassed and troubled by doubt, just as it forces us to meet those others also who, in search of economic progress, left us by the way when they saw that we were the jealous custodians of the privileges of their adversaries.

Christianity of itself transcends every political party as it transcends every current metaphysic whatsoever. In order that it may live it needs to assimilate, through both the one and the other, the civilization that surrounds it. But this