3 APRIL 1897, Page 15

ASCETICISM.

[TO TEN EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."3

2i,—May I offer the probably unpopular suggestion that asceticism is the most visible note of religion, as distinguished from mora]ity,—religion being understood to be the active prevalence of supernatural motives of action P—I am, Sir, &c.,

CATHOLICUS.