There is a refreshing originality about these Meditations, and many shafts are aimed in them that will go home. The best thing about them is the high standard on which they insist. The world loves to talk of lazy monks and idle nuns; and in this, as in so many other Of its criticisms, the world is half-right. Idleness, in the sense of being content with achieving little, of acquiescence in low ideals.