which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all. God has constituted us as reasonable beings, so the truer the insight into the real nature or the absolute need of a command, the readier and fuller our obedience to it will be. The call to humility has been too little regarded