III. THE BARBARIAN DESOLATION

IV. SAINT AUGUSTIN


INDEX




SAINT AUGUSTIN




PROLOGUE


Inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
"Our heart finds no rest until it rests in Thee."

_Confessions_, I, i.


Saint Augustin is now little more than a celebrated name. Outside of
learned or theological circles people no longer read him. Such is true
renown: we admire the saints, as we do great men, on trust. Even his
_Confessions_ are generally spoken of only from hearsay. By this neglect,
is he atoning for the renewal of glory in which he shone during the
seventeenth century, when the Jansenists, in their inveterate obstinacy,