Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I'm doing at present. I see it in embryonic stages early on, and I begin to see what I thought were simply notes, because they didn't resemble my earlier work, were, actually in early form, the work that I have now begun to do … the new work, in other words. I didn't recognize it at first. I thought it was failed old work.

To judge from the Catholic press, the Church's activity today is as vigorous as it has ever been. The theologians, within the framework of the dogmatic formularies, continue to elucidate divine revelation; and the ecclesiastics, like good policemen, control and direct the spiritual traffic. When, however, mid-twentieth century man wishes to discover what it is all about he...