“Objects among objects”

The soul is in a manner all things, and the idols we create are built into the souls of our children; who learn more and more to think of themselves as objects among objects; who grow hollower and hollower.  In the long run we shall not be able to save souls without saving the appearances, and it is an error fraught with the most terrible consequences to imagine that we shall. The world of final participation will one  day sparkle in the light of the eye as it never yet sparkled early one morning in the original light of the sun.