...multiplicity, distraction, and dispersion of her clamorous, many-headed, many-hearted nature, a tyranny impossible and unnecessary to bear. And yet to achieve...immensely sensitive, absolute, and claimful self. 2. Catherine and Marriage. Catherine's mind was without humour or wit ; and this was, of course, a...

...achieve the actual escape from such a tyranny, the mastering of such a rabble, and the harmonisation of such a chaos, meant a constant and immense effort,...her immensely sensitive, absolute and claimful self. Catherine's mind was without humour or wit; and this was, of course, a serious drawback. And her temperament...

...Von Hiigel, however, in a very perceptive passage, has an inkling of this fact: "It can be said, in simple truth, that she became a saint because she had to, that she became it, to prevent herself from going to pieces. She literally had to save, and actually did save, the fruitful life of reason...