1. Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments; Johannes Climacus (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985), 108–9.

2. In learning to speak, children will often first learn from context to use specific words, such as feet, correctly. As they progress, children learn to apply general rules of grammar, such as using an s to form plurals. This step in progress produces an apparent regression. For a time, typical children will form and speak plurals like foots. Eventually children master both the general rule and its exceptions and say feet again. See David McNeil, “The Development of Language,” in Paul H. Mussen, ed., Carmichael’s Manual of Child Psychology, 3d ed., 3 vols. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1970), 1:1101.

3. G. Homer Durham, ed., The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969), 295–96.

4. “And suddenly I heard a voice from some nearby house, a boy’s voice or a girl’s voice, I do not know: but it was a sort of sing-song, repeated again and again.” Frank Sheed, trans., The Confessions of St. Augustine (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1942), bk. 8, 146.

5. “Thus, step by step, he came to recognize the difference between the . . . spirits that moved him.” Ignatius Loyola, St. Ignatius’ Own Story: As Told to Luis González de Cámara, trans. William J. Young (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1956), vita 8, 10.

6. “The pain was so great that I screamed aloud, but simultaneously felt such infinite sweetness that I wished the pain to last eternally. It was the sweetest caressing of the soul by God.” Santa Teresa of Avila as quoted in Kenneth Clark, Civilisation: A Personal View (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), 191.

7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, rev. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1963), 45.

8. “A rest to [the] mind, a cheerer of spirits, . . . a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions.” Izzak Walton and John Cotton, The Compleat Angler (New York: A. L. Burt, 1655), pt. 1, ch. 1.

9. “We are all responsible for all. For all the ‘babes,’ for there are big children as well as little children. All are ‘babes.’” Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, ed. Ralph E. Matlaw, trans. Constance Garnett (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1976), 560.

10. Compare Emmanuel Levinas’ section on “Spirit and Violence” in Difficult Freedom, trans. Seán Hand (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), 6–7.

Thomas W. Draper

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