This is not a proper occasion for saying anything about the adequateness of the catholic, or any other special manner of fostering and solacing the religious impulses of men.
"On Compromise"
John Morley
Goethe's fine and luminous feeling for practical life, which has given such depth of richness and wisdom to his best prose writing, fills us with a delightful sense of satisfaction and adequateness; and yet why should it not leave us with a mind eagerly open for the larger and more inventive romance, in which nature is clothed with some of that awe and might and silent contemplation of the puny destinies of man, that used to surround the conception of the supernatural?
"Studies in Literature"
John Morley
It would require a very bulky volume to realise with any adequateness the ideal aim.
"Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul"
T. G. Tucker