CHAP. XXXVIII
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religious yearnings may interest and move us; but one needs perhaps the cloister's quiet to follow on through the allegorical elaboration of this pietism. Bonaventura's Soliloquium might weary us after the Itinerarium, and we should read his De septem itineribus aeternitatis with no more pleasure than Hugo's Mystic Ark of Noah. It is enough to witness the spiritual attitude of these men without tracking them through the "selva oscura" to their lairs of meditation.
