[1] As the earth's loftiest peaks rise not in their snows on
some isolated hill that stands like a lonely pyramid on a
level plain, but where the mountains, as in the Alps, or
Andes, or Himalayan range, are grouped and massed together,
so the saint's most heavenly happiness is not attained in
solitude, nor even amid domestic scenes, but where
religious life exists in its social character.--_Guthrie._
[2] See THE PEACEFUL HABITATION, chap. xxxii. 18, page 368.