Traditional religion does refer all ultimate authoritative norms to the highest reality, the nature of Godj and failure on the part of those professedly accepting this religion to carry this reference over to concrete criticism and judgment in special fields of morals, politics and art, is only an evidence of the confusion in which modern thought is entangled. It is this fact which gives the strict ad- herents to old beliefs, such as those trained in the Catholic faith, an intellectual advantage over "liberals." For the latter have no philosophy adequate for their undertakings and com- mitments.