That paradoxical suggestion of the infinite in and through the finite: so in his first published writing, a eulogy of Jose Maria Hereida, a cousin on his mother's side, Pierre Rousselot, characterized the poet's achievement of genius. What the poet suggests the metaphysician seeks to clarify. These words present the task which the young Jesuit set himself as he entered the ways od speculation. For more then being the ideal of the great metaphysicians...