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A study of five women of our times (Helen Foley, Katherine Mansfield, France Pastorelli, Elizabeth Leseur and St. Therese of Lisieux). Each of them, it can be at least said, was determined to accept the universe, and not to escape it through building up either an asylum of convenience, comfort, pleasure, power, or a superficial and romantic dream world. But the degree of acceptance, as well as the power of acceptance, were different in each case and the interest is to compare these degrees and powers.

Thus it was that women like Helen Foley and Katherine Mansfield, despite their desire to accept the universe, and with their gift - in the case of the latter amounting to genuis - of transmuting their acceptance into a re-seeing, a re-creation, of such aspects of it as they could make themselves one with, were never able to grasp, directly or indirectly, that for which they were all the time seeking.

The reason for this is made apparent in the studies of the second group, France Pastorelli, Elizabeth Leseur, and Therese Martin, better known as Therese of Lisieux. For in the case of each of these it is made clear that they were disposed, through the retention of the Faith so widely lost, to receive, each in her own degree, the Way, the Truth, the Life which alone can lead to the Reality which is the Universe, the Godhead.

This, then, is the theme of this book. The love that bridges the gap between the infinite and the finite, that spans the abyss between our vision here and the transcendent beyond, is to be found only specifically through the Humanity of the God-Man, Jesus Christ. Love is a living fountain that never dries up, and it is it alone that can bring true peace, unite the warring nations, and restore happiness to the wounded heart of modern man.