[The Catholic knows man has been recreated] But the secular world does not know these things and the new consciousness has filled the new [secular] consciousness has filled it [the contemporary imagination] with wild dreams and terrible programs for the ruthless refashioning of human nature. The result would seem to be that we live as Yeats says in a time when the good lack all conviction and the bad are filled with passionate intensity, but I’m not sure this is the whole story.