I have wondered whether I should say this at all or keep it to myself. For I should not like to deprive spiritual combat of its freshness, neither would I like to see aesthetic and intellectual enthusiasm and the blessing of intellectual love of God replaced by the tired imagination of an old man, of which, I hope, you are not suspecting me! Permit me at this point to expose the intellectual hypertrophy of the theological aesthete—and who would deny that such types are