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 its own moral and intellectual progress. It is the synthesis of the different phases which faith in the living Christ operating in His Church has successively traversed, from the moment of His death to the Council of Jerusalem; from the time when Paul, after having boldly resisted Peter and overcome the wiles of the false zealots, launched himself upon the conquest of the Hellenic world, to the moment when Christianity had to struggle against and overcome the Gnostic currents, drawing from them a copious wealth of beliefs which it idealized and purified; and so on to the development and the rational and careful systematization which culminated with St. Thomas.

This surely is a providential result, which permits us, following the path that has been traced for us by the Fathers and Doctors, to make this life of faith, of hope, and of love, live again for modern society, which is so ardently aspiring after the Divine; and to induce it to accept in their entirety