Books accustom men to take pleasure in ideas and to cultivate a high and noble inward life.

Thirdly, that by his baptism he might accustom men to the baptism of Christ; wherefore Gregory says in a homily (Hom.

Hence the purpose of the Law was to accustom men to give of their own to others readily: thus the Apostle (1 Tim.

The more serious result was that it accustomed men's minds to a belief in evolution as in some form possible or even probable.