And secondly, detachment, unification, spiritual recollection is the more difficult, and the less obviously necessary, of the two movements, and yet is precisely the one which (by coming upon the extant or inchoate attachments, and by suppressing or purifying them according as they are bad or good) first stamps any and every life as definitely religious at all. No wonder, then, that it is this sacred detachment and love of the Cross that we notice, first of all, in the life and doctrine of Our Lord and of all His followers, indeed in all truly religious souls throughout the world; and that the Church should, by her teaching and selection of striking examples, ever preach and uphold this most necessary test and ingredient, this very salt of all virile and fruitful spirituality. But, in the third place, a man need only directly attack the family, society, the state; or art, literature, science,--as intrinsically evil or even as, in practice, true hindrances to moral and religious perfection,--and the Church,--both the learning and experimenting, and the official and formulating Church,--will at once disavow him: so strong is, at bottom, the instinct that attachment and variety of interests,--variety both in kind and in degree--that materials, occasions, and objects for spirituality to leaven and to raise, and to work on in order to be itself deepened and developed,--are as truly essential to the spiritual life as are detachment, and unity, and transcendence of ultimate motive and aim; these latter furnishing to the soul the power gradually to penetrate all that material, and, in and through this labour, more and more to articulate its own spiritual character.